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Brain Pre-Quiz

Total questions: 27

Worksheet time: 14mins

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1.

This lobe of the brain enables your most advanced cognitive thinking abilities, such as judgement and planning,

a)

Temporal Lobe

b)

Occipital Lobe

c)

Frontal Lobe

d)

Parietal Lobe

2.

This lobe of the brain is a general processing area of the brain, and includes mathematical reasoning and memory.

a)

Frontal Lobe

b)

Occipital Lobe

c)

Parietal Lobe

d)

Temporal Lobe

3.

This lobe of the brain is the primary visual processing area.

a)

Parietal Lobe

b)

Temporal Lobe

c)

Occipital Lobe

d)

Frontal Lobe

4.

This lobe of the brain processes sound.

a)

Temporal Lobe

b)

Frontal Lobe

c)

Occipital Lobe

d)

Parietal Lobe

5.

What is lobe of the brain is in blue?

a)

Temporal Lobe

b)

Occipital Lobe

c)

Frontal Lobe

d)

Parietal Lobe

6.

What lobe of the brain is in green?

a)

Occipital Lobe

b)

Temporal Lobe

c)

Frontal Lobe

d)

Parietal Lobe

7.

What lobe of the brain is in pink?

a)

Parietal Lobe

b)

Frontal Lobe

c)

Temporal Lobe

d)

Occipital Lobe

8.

What lobe of the brain is in purple?

a)

Temporal Lobe

b)

Parietal Lobe

c)

Occipital Lobe

d)

Frontal Lobe

9.

What part of the brain is in orange?

a)

Temporal Lobe

b)

Amygdala

c)

Occipital Lobe

d)

Cerebellum

10.

What are the 3 parts of the brainstem?

a)

Medulla, Amygdala, Hippocampus

b)

Thalamus, Reticular Formation, Medulla

c)

Reticular Formation, Thalamus, Hypothalamus

11.

This part of the brainstem controls basic life-support functions such as heartbeat, breathing, circulation, and swallowing.

a)

Medulla

b)

Thalamus

c)

Amygdala

d)

Cerebellum

12.

This part of the brainstem is a nerve network that plays a role in wakefulness and arousal.

a)

Hypothalamus

b)

Medulla

c)

Cerebellum

d)

Reticualr Formation

13.

This part of the brainstem is the "sensory switchboard" of the brain, it directs messages to sensory receiving areas.

a)

Cerebellum

b)

Thalamus

c)

Amygdala

d)

Medulla

14.

Your cerebellum controls...

a)

Memory

b)

Body temperature

c)

Voluntary movements and balance

d)

cognitive thinking abilities

15.

Select the 3 parts that make up the Limbic System

a)

Hypothalamus

b)

Medulla

c)

Hippocampus

d)

Amygdala

e)

Cerebellum

16.

This part of the brain helps regulate body's maintenance functions, such as hunger, thirst, "fight or flight," reaction to stress, and body temperature.

a)

Temporal Lobe

b)

Cerebellum

c)

Amygdala

d)

Hypothalamus

17.

Which part of the brain helps process new memories for permanent storage?

a)

Cerebellum

b)

Hippocampus

c)

Hypothalamus

d)

Thalamus

18.

This part of the brain controls emotional responses, especially fear and anger.

a)

Hippocampus

b)

Hypothalamus

c)

Amygdala

d)

Reticular Formation

19.

This fissure divides the cerebral cortex [brain] into two hemispheres.

a)

Lateral Fissure

b)

Longitudinal Fissure

c)

Central Fissure

20.

What is the purpose of the corpus callosum?

a)

Controls voluntary body movements.

b)

Makes up the intricate fabric of neurons that make up the body's ultimate control and information processing center.

c)

Allows the two hemispheres of the brain to communicate

d)

Registers and processes body sensations

21.

Strip of tissue on the brain that controls voluntary movements

a)

Cerebral Cortex

b)

Parietal Lobe

c)

Motor Cortex

d)

Reticular Formation

22.

The area of the brain that processes body sensations [pain, heat, cold, etc]

a)

Motor Cortex

b)

Corpus Callosum

c)

Somatosensory Cortex

d)

Broca's Area

23.

The left hemisphere of the brain controls the body's right side, and The right hemisphere of the brain controls the body's left side.

a)

True

b)

False

24.

This part of the brain directs the muscle movements involved with speech.

a)

Wernicke's Area

b)

Somatosensory Cortex

c)

Broca's Area

d)

Cerebral Cortex

25.

This part of the brain is involved with the ability to understand spoken language.

a)

Somatosensory Cortex

b)

Wenicke's Area

c)

Limbic System

d)

Broca's Area

26.

This part of the brain controls voluntary movements and balance.

a)

Broca's Area

b)

Somatosensory Cortex

c)

Corpus Callosum

d)

Cerebellum

27.

The oldest part of the brain, responsible for automatic survival functions

a)

Limbic System

b)

Brainstem

c)

Cerebral Cortex

d)

Somatosensory Cortex