PLTW - Medical Detectives - Lesson 2 Vocabulary

This section of the brain is responsible for behavior, personality, memory retrieval, and storage.

• occipital lobe

• frontal lobe

• temporal lobe

• motor cortex

This section of the brain is responsible for visual perception and visual short term memory

• occipital lobe

• frontal lobe

• temporal lobe

• motor cortex

This section of the brain is responsible for controlling skeletal muscles

• occipital lobe

• frontal lobe

• temporal lobe

• motor cortex

This section of the brain is responsible for smell sound, words, language, and visual memory

• occipital lobe

• frontal lobe

• temporal lobe

• motor cortex

This section of the brain is responsible for hormones, growth, metabolism, digestion, sexual maturity, stress

• hypothalamus

• brain stem

• pituitary gland

• thalamus

This section of the brain is responsible for body temperature, thirst, appetite, and sleep patterns

• hypothalamus

• brain stem

• pituitary gland

• thalamus

This section of the brain is responsible for delivering brain signals and vital involuntary functions.

• hypothalamus

• brain stem

• pituitary gland

• thalamus

This section of the brain is responsible for sensory organ messages to the eyes, ears, nose, and fingers

• hypothalamus

• brain stem

• pituitary gland

• thalamus

This section of the brain is responsible for carrying signals from the eyes to the chasm

• optic nerve

• cerebellum

• olfactory bulb and tract

• auditory cortex

This section of the brain is responsible for sound

• optic nerve

• cerebellum

• olfactory bulb and tract

• auditory cortex