Vocabulary Set 7

Fill in the blank: ________ keeps automatic bodily functions, such as breathing and heartbeat going.

• Brain stem

• Cerebellum

• Cerebrum

• Spinal cord

Fill in the blank: ________ coordinates movements like walking, touching your nose, turning a page.

• Cerebellum

• Hippocampus

• Amygdala

• Thalamus

Fill in the blank: ________ transmits signals between the two halves of the brain.

• Corpus callosum

• Cerebellum

• Medulla oblongata

• Thalamus

Fill in the blank: ________ helps you think, remember, learn, imagine, read, speak, listen, dream, feel emotions, understand senses.

• Cortex

• Heart

• Liver

• Kidney

Fill in the blank: ________ helps us understand, recognize, and react to what we are seeing.

• Occipital lobe

• Temporal lobe

• Parietal lobe

• Frontal lobe

Fill in the blank: ________ helps us understand what we are hearing, and also stores many memories.

• Temporal lobe

• Frontal lobe

• Parietal lobe

• Occipital lobe

Fill in the blank: ________ helps us process sensory information, particularly our sense of touch.

• Parietal lobe

• Occipital lobe

• Temporal lobe

• Frontal lobe

Fill in the blank: ________ controls speech, movement, and reasoning, and also manages decision making and the personality.

• Frontal lobe

• Parietal lobe

• Occipital lobe

• Temporal lobe