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Nervous System Webquest Answer each question below in complete sentences on your own sheet of paper. Go to http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/flash/million.html and play the game as long as you need to, to answer the questions below. 1. How much does an average human brain weigh? 2. How many neurons are in an average human brain? 3. What are the two parts of the central nervous system? 4. What is the name of the junction between two neurons? 5. What lobe of the brain is most important for vision? 6. Which of the answers in the game was NOT a neurotransmitter? 7. What disease is characterized by an “electrical storm” in the brain? 8. What connects the right and left hemispheres of the brain? 9. What part of the eye contains cells that respond to light (photoreceptors)? 10. Which of the answers in the game was NOT a layer of the meninges? 11. What brain imaging method used radioactively labeled glucose? 12. Who won the Nobel Prize in 1981 for his discoveries about the right and left hemispheres of the brain? Now, go to http://www.anatomyarcade.com/games/gamesNervous.html and click Nervous System Crossword. Use the internet to answer the questions and record your answers below. 13. What do we call the grooves on the surface of the cerebrum? 14. What do we call the largest part of the brain, which is divided into right and left hemispheres? 15. What do we call the lobe responsible for processing the sensation of touch? 16. What do we call the lobe responsible for vision? 17. What part of the central nervous system is responsible for movement co-ordination, posture and balance? 18. What part of the brain is concerned with life-support? 19. What do we call the fatty insulating covering on the axon of some neurons? 20. What do we call neurons that transmit impulses away from the central nervous system? 21. What connects the two cerebral hemispheres together? 22. What do we call the region of communication between two neurons? 23. What do we call a cavity in the interior of the brain? 24. What do we call the neuron that transmits a receptor generated impulse toward the central nervous system? Now, go to https://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=parts-of-the-brainquiz and click start. Then take the quiz and answer the questions below. 25. The cerebrum controls how we ____________ ? 26. What is the back part of the brain called? 27. Name one thing your cerebellum controls. 28. What sits below the cerebrum and in front of the cerebellum?

29. Where is the parietal lobe located? 30. The brainstem is made up of the midbrain, ___________ ______________. 31. Below the pons is _______________ Now, go to http://www.learn4good.com/games/online/nervoussystem.htm read the directions, scroll down and play the game as many times as needed to answer the questions below. Hint: you may need to purposely lose during a certain section of the game to get the answers below. 32. What is a rod photoreceptor? What was the length of your neuron when you lost during this section? 33. What is a retinal bipolar cell? What was the length of your neuron when you lost during this section? 34. What is a stellate neuron? What was the length of your neuron when you lost during this section? 35. What is a horizontal cell? What was the length of your neuron when you lost during this section? 36. What is a basket cell? What was the length of your neuron when you lost during this section? 37. What is a golgi cell? What was the length of your neuron when you lost during this section? 38. Get to a level higher than the ones listed in questions 32-37, and describe that axon, neuron or cell? What was the length of your neuron when you lost during this section? 39. What was the longest length of a neuron you achieved playing this game? Now, go to https://www.uakron.edu/gage/story.dot and read the famous story of Phineas Gage. 40. Write a minimum 15 sentence paragraph on the details surrounding Phineas’ accident. Now, go to https://www.uakron.edu/gage/adaptation.dot and scroll down to the section, What can we conclude about Phineas’ psychosocial adaptation? Then answer the questions below. 41. How do these 8 points give a different impression of Phineas Gage after the accident than the original reports? 42. From these 8 points how would you define “Psychosocial adaptation”? 43. After researching parts of the brain and their function, write a minimum 8 sentence paragraph hypothesizing why Phineas was able to survive this horrific brain injury when most brain injuries lead to death....