CH17: Brain and Cranial Nerves

Question 1

Where can you find the auditory cortex?

Answer 1

temporal

Question 2

Where can you find the motor cortex?

Answer 2

frontal

Question 2

Where can you find the somatosensory cortex?

Answer 2

parietal

Question 3

Where can you find the olfactory cortex?

Answer 3

temporal

Question 4

Where can you find the primary visual cortex?

Answer 4

occipital

Question 5

Where can you find the Broca’s area

Answer 5

frontal

Question 6

What is the site of regulation; temp and water balance

Answer 6

hypothalamus

Question 7

What is the site where medial fibers of the optic nerves cross?

Answer 7

optic chiasma

Question 8

What is located in the midbrain and contains reflex centers for vision and hearing

Answer 8

corpora quadrigemina

Question 9

What is responsible for regulation of posture and coordination of complex muscular movements

Answer 9

cerebellum

Question 10

What is the important synapse site for afferent fibers traveling to the sensory cortex

Answer 10

thalamus

Question 11

What contains autonomic centers regulating blood pressure, heart rate, and respiratory rhythm, coughing, and swallowing

Answer 11

medulla oblongata

Question 12

What large fiber tract connect the cerebral hemispheres

Answer 12

corpus callosum

Question 13

What canal connects the third and fourth ventricles?

Answer 13

cerebral aqueduct

Question 14

What is the portion of the brain stem where cerebral peduncles can be found?

Answer 14

midbrain

Question 15

What part of the brain contains the dlencephalon, thalamus, optic chiasma, and hypothalamus

Answer 15

forebrain

Question 16

What part of the brain contains the medulla oblangata, Pons, and Cerebellum

Answer 16

the hindbrain

Question 17

What part of the brain contains the cerebral hemispheres?

Answer 17

forebrain

Question 18

What is the function of the basal nuclei

Answer 18

to control voluntary movement