Unit 1 Quiz 1 Brain Structures

What lobe is highlighted in red?

• Ear lobe

• Parental Units

• Frontal lobe

• Parietal lobe

Which letter on the illustration represents the temporal lobe? 

• A
• B
• C
• D

Which letter on the illustration represents the frontal lobe? 

• A
• B
• C
• D

Regulates your hunger, thirst, body temperature

• hypothalamus
• Cerebrum
• Amygdala
• reticular formation

The brain contains BILLIONS of these

• neurotransmitters
• axons
• myelin sheath
• neurons

Known as the "Little Brain" and is in charge of balance and coordinating movements

• Thalamus
• Reticular Formation
• Hypothalamus
• Cerebellum

Makes decisions, plans, reasons, and carries out behaviors

• Frontal Lobe
• Parietal Lobe
• Occipital Lobe
• Temporal Lobe

Importance for the storage of new memories

• Cerebellum
• Thalamus
• Hippocampus
• Amygdala

Coordinates balance and voluntary movements

• Corpus callosum

• Cerebellum

• Cerebrum

• Spinal cord

Brain's "sensory switchboard": directs sensory messages to proper area of the brain

• Thalamus

• Hypothalamus

• Hippocampus

• Reticular formation