Structure

Question 1

Cerebrum

Answer 1

-main part
-controls voluntary actions, personality, conscious thoughts
- receives sensory information
-sends impulses to motor neurone

Question 2

Cerebellum

Answer 2

• involuntary actions
• coordination and balance
• muscle movement

Question 3

Medulla oblongata

Answer 3

• regulates body functions
• contains many regulatory functions like breathing and heart rate

Question 4

Hypothalamus

Answer 4

• thermoregulagion
• hormone production
• autonomic: para and sympathetic
• controls complex behaviour like aggressions and sleeping patterns
• monitors water and blood concentration

Question 5

Pituitary gland

Answer 5

Anterior: produces hormones involved in growth and production
Posterior: stores and releases hormones produced by hypothalamus