• 14 parts
  • Checked October 2026

Label the Hemispheres of the Brain

The whole brain from the front and from the back, numbered to label: both hemispheres, four lobes, the cerebellum.

Label the Hemispheres of the Brain

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Numbered worksheet

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Write the name of each numbered part.Answer key

  1. Longitudinal fissure
  2. Right cerebral hemisphere
  3. Left cerebral hemisphere
  4. Frontal lobe
  5. Temporal lobe
  6. Pons
  7. Medulla oblongata
  8. Parietal lobe
  9. Occipital lobe
  10. Cerebellar hemisphere
  11. Vermis
  12. Spinal cord
  13. Gyrus (a fold)
  14. Sulcus (a groove)

Drawn for this site on 2026-10-01 from plain geometry. Licence: own work.

Each numbered ring is a button. Use the arrow keys to move between them and Enter to choose. Names are read out in Study, and once a part is answered.

Next step The labeled brain, with the view from above

All 14 parts on the diagram

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Front 7

  1. Longitudinal fissure The deep groove between the two cerebral hemispheres.
  2. Right cerebral hemisphere The right half of the cerebrum. From the front it is on the left of the picture.
  3. Left cerebral hemisphere The left half of the cerebrum. From the front it is on the right of the picture.
  4. Frontal lobe The lobe at the front of each hemisphere. It is the largest of the lobes.
  5. Temporal lobe The lobe at the side, below the lateral sulcus.
  6. Pons The bulging middle part of the brainstem, above the medulla.
  7. Medulla oblongata The lowest part of the brainstem. It continues down as the spinal cord.

Behind 7

  1. Parietal lobe The lobe behind the central sulcus, in front of the occipital lobe.
  2. Occipital lobe The lobe at the back of each hemisphere. It holds the primary visual cortex.
  3. Cerebellar hemisphere One of the two large halves of the cerebellum.
  4. Vermis The narrow middle strip that joins the two cerebellar hemispheres.
  5. Spinal cord The cord of nervous tissue that continues down from the medulla oblongata.
  6. Gyrus (a fold) A ridge on the folded surface of the cortex. The plural is gyri.
  7. Sulcus (a groove) A groove between two gyri. The plural is sulci.

How this list was compiled: Every name checked on 2026-10-01 in at least two of these. (1) Wikipedia, English edition, Cerebrum, Cerebral hemisphere, Longitudinal fissure, Lobes of the brain, Gyrus, Sulcus (neuroanatomy), Central sulcus, Precentral gyrus, Postcentral gyrus, Parieto-occipital sulcus, Cerebellum and Spinal cord, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebrum. (2) Henry Gray, Anatomy of the Human Body (1918), The Fore-brain or Prosencephalon and The Hind-brain or Rhombencephalon, https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/anatomy-of-the-human-body/4c-the-fore-brain-or-prosencephalon/. (3) Neuroscience Online, McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, Section 2, Chapter 1, https://nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience/m/s2/chapter01.html. (4) TeachMeAnatomy, The Cerebrum, https://teachmeanatomy.info/neuroanatomy/structures/cerebrum/. Detail lines are in our own words. Licence: own work

The drawing: Drawn for this site on 2026-10-01 from plain geometry; nothing traced. Licence: own work

How it works

To label the brain's hemispheres, write a name on the line for each number. Numbers 1 to 7 are on the brain seen from the front; with 8 to 14 you label the parts of the brain from the back.

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Hemispheres of the brain word bank

Fourteen names, A to Z: cerebellar hemisphere, frontal lobe, gyrus, left cerebral hemisphere, longitudinal fissure, medulla oblongata, occipital lobe, parietal lobe, pons, right cerebral hemisphere, spinal cord, sulcus, temporal lobe, vermis.

Labeling a brain on the left and right side

The upper brain faces you, so number 2, at the left of the paper, is the right hemisphere and number 3 the left. Number 1 is the cleft between them. The lower brain is seen from the back, so there the left hemisphere is on the left. Numbers 8 and 9 are lobes, 10 and 11 parts of the cerebellum, 12 the stalk under it, 13 one fold and 14 one groove.

  • When marking, accept right hemisphere and left hemisphere on lines 2 and 3, interhemispheric fissure on line 1 and cerebellum on line 10.
  • As an activity, have the class shade the right hemisphere in one color on both drawings before writing any name.
  • For a simple sheet of the hemispheres, pick Front under Start from: seven numbers, all on the upper drawing.

Questions and answers

How many hemispheres does the brain have?

Two cerebral hemispheres, the left and the right, make up the cerebrum, the largest part of the brain. The cerebellum, tucked under them, has two hemispheres of its own; one is number 10 on this sheet.

What does each side of the brain control?

Mainly the body's opposite side. The left hemisphere controls, and takes in signals from, the body's right side, and the right hemisphere does the same for the left side.

How many lobes are in each hemisphere of the brain?

Four main lobes: the frontal, parietal, temporal and occipital lobes, each named after the skull bone that lies over it. The frontal and temporal lobes are numbered on the front drawing, the parietal and occipital lobes on the back drawing.

What connects the two hemispheres of the cerebellum?

The vermis, number 11 on this sheet: the narrow middle part of the cerebellum, continuous with a hemisphere on each side. The two cerebral hemispheres are joined by something else, the corpus callosum, which lies below the fissure and has no number here.

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