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Your amazing BRAIN!

Total questions: 34

Worksheet time: 2hrs 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Your hypothalamus controls...

a)

Your balance

b)

Your temperature and hunger

c)

Your breathing

d)

Your memory

2.

The largest part of the brain is called...

a)

Hippocampus

b)

Cerebellum

c)

Cerebral Cortex

d)

Left Hemisphere

3.

Which part of the brain controls vital functions like breathing and your heart beat?

a)

Brain Stem

b)

Cerebellum

c)

Amygdala

d)

Hippocampus

4.

Which lobe controls concentration, planning, and problem solving?

a)

Frontal

b)

Occipital

c)

Parietal

d)

Temporal

5.

Which lobe is responsible for sight and visual processing?

a)

Occipital Lobe

b)

Temporal Lobe

c)

Frontal Lobe

d)

Parietal Lobe

6.

Which lobe receives and processes sound?

a)

Frontal Lobe

b)

Occipital Lobe

c)

Temporal Lobe

d)

Parietal Lobe

7.

Which lobe controls and processes pain and pressure?

a)

Frontal Lobe

b)

Parietal Lobe

c)

Occipital Lobe

d)

Temporal Lobe

8.

Which part of your brain controls learning and memory?

a)

Brain Stem

b)

Temporal Lobe

c)

Hippocampus

d)

Amygdala

9.

what controls your senses, reading and writing?

a)
parietal lobes
b)
brainstem
c)
thalamus
d)
motor strip
10.

Functions include initiating voluntary movement, working memory, personality, and higher cognitive functions such as decision-making and judgment.

a)

Frontal lobe

b)

Parietal lobe

c)

Occipital lobe

d)

Temporal lobe

11.

What lobe is in charge of problem solving?

a)

Parietal

b)

Temporal

c)

Frontal

d)

Occipital

12.

Shelton fell off of a ladder while cleaning the windows. He can not stand up without assistance and is unable to catch a ball. Which is the most likely affected part of the brain?

a)

Cerebellum

b)

Cerebrum

c)

Cerebral Cortex

d)

Corpus Callosum

13.

Billy is very hungry and thirsty. What part of his brain is telling him this?

a)

frontal lobe

b)

hippocampus

c)

hypothalamus

d)

limbic system

14.

the half if the brain that controls the right side of the body and is in charge of decision making, problem solving and language.

a)

Left Hemisphere

b)

Right Hemisphere

c)

Temporal Lobe

d)

Occipital Lobe

15.

What part of our brain controls our emotional behavior?

a)

Brain stem

b)

Amygdala

c)

Hypothalamus

d)

Hippocampus

16.
A person has a stroke on her occipital lobe.  What might happen to her?
a)
reduced planning abilities
b)
deafness
c)
coma
d)
blindness
17.

The part of the brain that is in charge of many of the body's basic functions, including sleep, heart rate and digestion.

a)

Brain Stem

b)

Limbic System

c)

Neurons

d)

Occipital Lobe

18.

Cells in the brain are called

a)

Your lobes

b)

dendrites

c)

Neurons

d)

cell body

19.
What is this?
a)
Cerebrum
b)
Cerebellum
c)
Brain Stem
d)
Diencephalon
20.

The process that neurons use to communicate with each other


a)

myelin

b)

basic thinking

c)

neurotransmission

d)

cerebral cortex

21.

the part of the cerebral cortex that is responsible for the sense of touch (feeling).


a)

Temporal Lobe

b)

Cerebellum

c)

Frontal Lobe

d)

Parietal Lobe

22.

the half of the brain that controls the left side of the body and is in charge of artistic expression.


a)

Left Hemisphere

b)

Right Hemisphere

c)

Lobe

d)

cell body

23.

The part of the cerebral cortex that is in charge of decision-making, problem solving and higher thinking.


a)

Temporal Lobe

b)

Parietal Lobe

c)

Limbic System

d)

Frontal Lobe

24.


The halves (2) that make up the brain.


a)

lobes

b)

hemispheres

c)

neurotransmitters

25.
what controls your personality ?!
a)
parietal lobes
b)
occipital lobes
c)
temporal lobes
d)
frontal lobes
26.

the part of the cerebral cortex that is responsible for sense of sight (seeing)

a)

Temporal Lobe

b)

Occipital Lobe

c)

Frontal Lobe

d)

brain stem

27.

The parts of the neuron that receive messages from other neurons.

a)

dendrites

b)

axon

c)

cell body

d)

brain cell

28.

The part of the neuron that send messages to other neurons.

a)

myelin

b)

dendrites

c)

axon

d)

synapse

29.
The cerebrum is divided into four lobes 
a)
Upper brain, thalamus, brain stem 
b)
Frontal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe, temporal lobe
c)
Temporal lobe, frontal lobe, ear lobe
30.

What are the connections between neurons called?

a)

neurons

b)

synapses

c)

cortisol

31.

What is the chemical that increases when you do something that make you happy? This chemical also make you feel satisfaction and can motivate you.

a)

neurons

b)

synapses

c)

neurotransmitters

d)

dopamine

32.

Brain Stem

a)

responsible for survival functions (e.g. breathing, heart beat, etc.); includes medulla and pons


b)

Higher level breain functions; thoughts, emotions, memory, reasoning, language, and processing of sensory information.


c)

Sends signals between brain and rest of body


d)

Is in charge of processing your sensory information

33.

Self Control happens here

a)

Parietal Lobe

b)

Temporal Lobe

c)

Frontal Lobe

d)

Occipital Lobe

34.
What is number 4?
a)
dendrite
b)
axon 
c)
cell body
d)

myelin