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18 Cards in this Set
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The part of the part of the brain you use to think and feel.
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The Cortex
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The top of the brain is divided into
two domes called: |
Cerebral Hemispheres
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The two cerebral hemispheres
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The Cerebrum
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The part of the brain that monitors the information sent to your brain and decides where, or if, it should be processed is called:
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The Pons
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Helps carry message between the the brain and the rest of the body.
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The Spinal Cord
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The part of the brain that controls your heart rate, temperature, waterworks, sleep and sexual development.
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The Hypothalamus
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The part of the brain that helps
control movement. |
Cerebellum
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The billions of tiny nerve cells which make up your brain are called:
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Neurons
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The thick bundle of nerves which joins the left and right domes of the cerebrum.
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Corpus Callosum
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The long tentacle, often with branching ends which carries signals away from the cell body and passes
them on to dendrites on other neurons are called: |
Axon
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The side of the brain that is used for
speech and language. |
Left Side
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The side of the brain that thinks
using pictures. |
Right Side
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Tentacles which radiate from the cell body which receive signals from axons and carry them to the cell body.
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Dendrites
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How are messages carried away from
neurons? |
Through tiny pulses of electricty.
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How are messages carried away from
neurons? |
Through tiny pulses of electricty
traveling down the Axon. |
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Axons and dendrites are seperated by
tiny gaps called: |
Synapses
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What happens when a signal reaches the end of an axon?
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Special chemicals are released which spread across the gap and then the dedtrie fires off an electrical pulse.
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The human brain has aboutapproximately how many neurons?
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100 billion
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