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| Everything a person or any animal does is controlled by this organ. |
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| Compared to the size of the body as a whole, which animal has the largest brain? |
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| Brain, Spinal Cord, Nervous System |
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| These three things control all of an animal's body functions. |
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| Scientists like to think of people as having four kinds of these... |
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| Short-term, long-term, ancestral, and eidetic |
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| The four kinds of memories. |
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| How is the brain able to fit into the skull? |
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| The left side of the brain controls the right side of the body. |
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| Which side of the brain controls the right side of the body? |
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| The right side of the brain controls the left side of the body. |
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| Which side of the brain controls the left side of the body? |
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| 100 billion (100,000,000,000) |
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| Humans have approximately how many brain cells? |
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| The same number, about 10 billion. |
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| How many brain cells do humans have at birth, and when full-grown? |
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| No, the brain is just as active when you are asleep as when you are awake. |
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| Does your brain rest when you are sleeping? |
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| cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem |
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| What are the three main parts of the brain? |
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| Which part of the brain controls voluntary muscles? |
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| Which part of the brain controls balance movement and coordination? |
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| Which part of the brain connects the rest of the brain to the spinal cord? |
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| The heart is an example of which type of muscle? Voluntary or involuntary? |
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| Is the pituitary gland large or small? |
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| What very small gland produces and releases hormones into the body, and ? |
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| What is located on the wall of the brain and controls temperature and hunger among other things? |
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| The outer part of the cerebrum is composed of an important layer of nerve cells called what? |
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| sensory cortex, motor cortex, association cortex |
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| What are the three pats of the cerebral cortex? |
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| Which part of the cerebral cortex receives messages from the sense organs? |
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| Which part of the cerebral cortex sends messages to the skeletal muscles? |
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| Which part of the cerebral cortex processes information and stores it? |
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| Right hemisphere cortex, left hemisphere cortex |
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| What two parts of the cerebrum are divided by a special fissure or groove? |
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| The cerebrum accounts for 85% of the brain's total weight |
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| Which of the brain's three main parts accounts for most of the brain's weight? |
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| 20% (twenty percent!) of the oxygen |
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| Even though the brain only accounts for about 2% of adult body weight, it needs what percentage of the oxygen used by the resting body? |
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| What is used to communicate between the brain and the body? |
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