1. Your ________
is your body's "boss"?
A. Heart
B. Mother
C. Brain
D. Hands
2. Your hypothalamus
is the part of the brain that controls your ________.
A. Reflexes, Skin, Heart, and Toes
B. Neck, Heart, Lungs, and Legs
C. Spinal Cord, Hands, Liver, and
Stomach
D. Hunger, Emotions, Thirst, and
Body Temperature
3. The brain is
made up of ________ and trillions of other supporting cells.
A. 42 Hundred
B. 100 Billion
C. 1000 Trillion
D. 20 million
4. The hypothalamus
is about the size of a ________.
A. Pea
B. Tennis Ball
C. Beach Ball
D. Golf ball
5. The spinal cord
has over ________ million neurons.
A. 5
B. 750
C. 46
D. 13
6. Breathing and
digesting the food are controlled by the ________ .
A. Spinal Cord
B. Sensory Receptors
C. Brain Stem
D. Motor Neurons
7. A material that
surrounds the brain is the ________.
A. a fluid in which the brain floats
B. a neuron
C. brain stem
D. spinal cord
8. The part of the
brain that helps you keep your balance is the ________.
A. cerebellum
B. cerebrum
C brain stem
D. axon
9. Cells that are
sensitive to light, pressure, and pain are called ________.
A. nerve impulses
B. neurons
C. sensory receptors
D. sensory neurons
10. Branching out
from the cell body, a(n) ________ receives information from other neurons.
A. axon
B. dendrite
C. hypothalamus
D. retina
11. Nerve impulses
travel through the ________ before they reach the synapse.
A. axon
B. neuron
C. PNS
D. CNS
12. The general
name for a cell in the nervous system is ________.
A. neuron
B. dendrite
C. retina
D. synapse
13. The thinking
part of the brain is the ________.
A. cerebellum
B. axon
C. brain stem
D. cerebrum
14. The part of
the eye that contains sensory receptors for light is the ________.
A. neuron
B. retina
C. lens
D. pupil