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Brain definitions

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Responsible for processing smell and sound, as well as the ability to recognize and understand words and language. They are also involved in visual memory.

a)

Frontal lobes

b)

Parietal lobes

c)

Temporal lobes

d)

Occipital lobes

2.

the nerve that carries neural impulses from the eye to the brain

a)

Optic nerve

b)

Auditory nerve

c)

Vagus nerve

d)

Radial nerve

3.

Responsible for balance, movement, and coordination.

a)

Cerebellum

b)

Cerebrum

c)

Brainstem

d)

Thalamus

4.

controls most of the functions on the left side of the body; creative, musical, visual/facial recognition

a)

Left cerebral hemisphere

b)

Right cerebral hemisphere

c)

Brainstem

d)

Cerebellum

5.

Responsible for the voluntary control of your skeletal muscles—the muscles we can move and control.

a)

Motor cortex

b)

Cerebellum

c)

Brainstem

d)

Spinal cord

6.

Responsible for sensing touch, pressure, vibration, pain, temperature, and taste.

a)

Sensory cortex

b)

Motor cortex

c)

Visual cortex

d)

Auditory cortex

7.

Controls body temperature, thirst, appetite, sleep patterns, and other processes in our bodies that happen automatically.

a)

Hypothalamus

b)

Cerebellum

c)

Thalamus

d)

Pituitary Gland

8.

Responsible for the conscious perception of visual input.

a)

Visual cortex

b)

Auditory cortex

c)

Somatosensory cortex

d)

Prefrontal cortex

9.

Responsible for sensing touch, spatial processing, language, and memory.

a)

Frontal lobes

b)

Temporal lobes

c)

Occipital lobes

d)

Parietal lobes

10.

Carries messages from the sensory organs, like the eyes, ears, nose, and fingers, to the cerebrum.

a)

Thalamus

b)

Cerebellum

c)

Hypothalamus

d)

Medulla Oblongata

11.

Responsible for the conscious perception of sound.

a)

Auditory cortex

b)

Visual cortex

c)

Somatosensory cortex

d)

Motor cortex

12.

Responsible for many roles in behavior, mood and personality, such as planning, initiated movements, social and emotional processing, and attention, as well as roles in memory retrieval and storage.

a)

Frontal lobes

b)

Temporal lobes

c)

Occipital lobes

d)

Parietal lobes

13.

The nerve fibers that connect the olfactory bulbs to the temporal lobes.

a)

Olfactory tracts

b)

Optic nerves

c)

Cranial nerves

d)

Spinal nerves

14.

Receive information about smells from the nose and send it to the brain.

a)

Olfactory bulbs

b)

Optic nerves

c)

Auditory cortex

d)

Taste buds

15.

Connects the brain and spinal cord

a)

Cerebellum

b)

Brain stem

c)

Thalamus

d)

Hypothalamus

16.

Responsible for visual perception and involved in some forms of visual, short-term memory.

a)

Frontal lobes

b)

Temporal lobes

c)

Occipital lobes

d)

Parietal lobes

17.

A broad band of nerve fibers that connect the left and right cerebral hemispheres.

a)

Corpus callosum

b)

Cerebellum

c)

Thalamus

d)

Hippocampus

18.

Responsible for all reasoning, planning, memory, and sensory processing. All conscious thought originates here.

a)

Cerebrum

b)

Cerebellum

c)

Brainstem

d)

Thalamus

19.

the point in the brain where the visual field information from each eye "crosses over" to the appropriate side of the brain for processing

a)

Optic chiasm

b)

Corpora quadrigemina

c)

Thalamus

d)

Occipital lobe

20.

controls the majority of functions on the right side of the body; logical, math, organization

a)

Left cerebral hemisphere

b)

Right cerebral hemisphere

c)

Cerebellum

d)

Brainstem