The Brain & Its Functions

The brain is divided into 4 parts called _______.

• quadrants

• lobes

• quarters

• sections

The brain has ridges which makes it bumpy. A ridge is called:

• gyrus

• sulcus

The occipital lobe helps us understand what we _________.

The part of the brain that understands what we hear is the ______________ lobe.

• occipital

• frontal

• temporal

• parietal

The _________________ lobe is involved with spatial location, attention and motor control.

The lobe of the brain that involves personality, intelligence and voluntary movement is the _______________ lobe.

• frontal

• temporal

Phineas Gage received an injury to his _______________ lobe.

• temporal

• occipital

• frontal

Phineas Gage's frontal lobe injury changed his _________________.

• eye sight

• personality

• motor control

A __________a type of traumatic brain injury—or TBI—caused by a bump, blow, or jolt to the head or by a hit to the body that causes the head and brain to move rapidly back and forth.

Which of the following is a symptom of a concussion?

• headache

• broken arm

• bruise

• sprained ankle