Cranial Nerves
What is the name of the first cranial nerve (cranial nerve I) that helps with your sense of smell?
The olfactory nerve
Which organ system is the protective covering for your body and protects you from the sun and helps regulate your body temperature? The organs in this system are the skin, hair, nails, and sweat glands.
The integumentary system
Which vital organ is located in the center of your chest, is part of the circulatory system, and helps to keep blood flowing throughout your body?
The heart.
What is the name of the main kind of cell in the nervous system? These are the cells that take in and send out electrical signals.
Neurons.
What are the 3 main parts of the brain? And what do they do?
1. Cerebrum: Coordinates movement, regulates temperature, helps with speech, thinking, problem solving, and learning.
2. Brainstem: Connects the cerebrum to the spinal cord. Helps regulate important body functions like breathing.
3. Cerebellum: Helps with balance
What is the name of the seventh cranial nerve (cranial nerve VII) that helps you move your face, and helps you taste?
The facial nerve.
Which organ system controls all the high speed communications in your body and sends electrical signals to help your body respond to the environment around you? The organs in this system are the brain, the spinal cord, and nerves.
The nervous system
Which two organs are located in your upper chest, are part of the respiratory system, and help exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide in your blood?
The lungs.
What is the part of the neuron that has many short branches and brings information in to the neuron?
Dendrites
What is the large, C-shaped structure that connects the right and left hemisphere of your brain and allows information to move from one side to the other?
The corpus callosum
Which cranial nerve is the largest and most complex cranial nerve, has both sensory and motor function, helps you feel sensation in your face and scalp, and helps you move your chewing muscles?
What is the system that makes hormones that control your growth and development and also help with metabolism? Some organs in this system include the pancreas, the pituitary, and the thyroid.
The endocrine system
Which vital organ is found inside your skull, makes up the core (or the control center) of the nervous system, and creates, sends, and processes nerve impulses, thoughts, emotions, and physical sensations?
The brain.
What is the part of the neuron that is a long arm and carries information away from the neuron?
Axon
What is the name of the gland deep in your brain that responds to stress or fear?
The amygdala
What cranial nerve helps you with balance and hearing?
The eight cranial nerve (cranial nerve VIII), the vestibulocochlear nerve.
Which system filters the blood to remove extra water and waste and makes urine to help remove extra water and waste from your body? The organs in this system are the kidneys, the bladder, and the urethra.
The excretory system
What is the pair of vital organs that that are shaped like beans, located in the back of the abdomen, are part of the excretory system, and filter the blood and remove waste from the body in urine?
The kidneys.
What is the place where neurons connect and communicate called? It is the junction between the axon of one neuron and the dendrite of another neuron.
Synapse
What is the name of the lobe in the back of the brain that is involved with vision?
Occipital lobe
Which three cranial nerves help you move your eyes?
3, 4 and 6
3 (III): Oculomotor
4 (IV): Trochlear
6 (VI): Abducens
Which system makes the specialized cells needed to create a new human baby? The organs in this system include the testes, the ovaries, and the uterus.
The reproductive system.
Which vital organ is located on the right side of your abdomen, is part of the digestive system, and filters your blood and produces bile that helps digest food and makes proteins that help your blood clot?
The liver.
The autonomic nervous system controls functions in your body that happen automatically or involuntarily, without you having to think about it. It has 2 parts:
1. The sympathetic system
2. The parasympathetic system.
What do each of them do?
1. Sympathetic: Fight or flight. Control's the body's response to stress or danger. Increases heart rate and breathing, slows down digestion.
2. Parasympathetic: Rest and digest. Control's the body's basic functions when you are relaxed and resting
What is the name of the largest lobe of the brain that is involved in creativity, story-telling, art and music on the right side and speech, decision-making, analyzing, logic, and calculations on the left side?
The frontal lobe