Directions: Using the Anatomy book pages 443-454, answer the following questions. If it's a short answer question you can just type in the answer, but for the essay questions respond in a complete sentence.
Question 1
1.
What forms the central core of the forebrain?
Question 2
2.
What are the three paired structures of the diencephalon? Circle the thalamus in the diagram.
Question 3
3.
Describe the thalamus.
Question 4
4.
What are types of somatic sensory receptors?
Question 5
5.
What type of impulses do the lateral and medial geniculate bodies receive?
Question 6
6.
What key roles does the thalamus play?
Question 7
7.
Describe the location of the hypothalamus.
Question 8
8.
What does hypo mean?
Question 9
9.
What gland is connected to the hypothalamus?
Question 10
10.
List and number the seven homeostatic roles of the hypothalamus.
Question 11
11.
What are some of the ANS activities that the hypothalamus influences?
Question 12
12.
What is the limbic system?
Question 13
13.
Describe two ways that the hypothalamus regulates body temperature.
Question 14
14.
Explain how the hypothalamus regulates the biological clock.
Question 15
15.
What hormones are produced in the hypothalamus?
Question 16
16.
If the hypothalamus is disturbed or damaged then what disorders can it cause?
Question 17
17.
What gland extends from the epithalamus?
Question 18
18.
What hormone does it secrete and what does this help regulate?