The Amazing Brain!
Mighty M'Kenna
Lucky Lobes
Must have Macros
Body Systems
100

The weight of this amazing organ

What is about 3lbs?

100

Name three of M'Kennas' symptoms

What are: fatigue, stomach cramping, diarrhea, difficulty breathing during exercise, weight loss?

100

The "eyes in the back of your head" lobe

What is the occipital lobe?

100
Name the three macromolecules that form our foods.

What are proteins, fats, and carboydrates?

100

Running is a fun activity and causes an increase in our heart rate making this body system work harder.

What is the circulatory system?

200

Your brain uses this much of your body energy

What is 25%?

200

Food groups (2) is M'Kenna having difficulty eating?

What are dairy and gluten?

200

This brain lobe is responsible for your hearing, processing sounds, and understanding language.

What is the temporal lobe?

200

Proteins found in foods such as chicken and lentils break down into these smaller molecules that your body can absorb.

What are amino acids?

200

On Halloween many people decorate their yards with these structures that clearly exhibit this important foundational body system.

What is the skeletal system?

300

Your brain uses this much more oxygen than any other part of your body

What is 10x?

300

This part of M'Kenna's digestive system is where foods are not being broken down.

What is the beginning of the small intestine?

300

Your frontal lobe is responsible for these three functions among others.

What is critical thinking, decision-making, short-term memory, and understanding language.

300

These macromolecules are a favorite of many people especially those in cookies and cakes! They break down into glucose which helps fuel our body's production of ATP. 

What are carbohydrates?

300

List 4 functions of the muscular system

What is allow for force and movement, maintain bodily stability, posture, circulation, and heat for the body? 

400

You are born with about this many neurons!

What is 100 billion?

400

The villi in the middle of M'Kenna's small intestines are not doing this very important job.

What is absorbing water and nutrients?
400

This lobe processes the feelings of touch, pain, and temperature

What is the Parietal Lobe?

400

Many delicious foods, especially baked goods such as cupcakes and cookies, contain these ingredients known in the Science world as lipids. During digestion, what do these macromolecules break down into?

What are fats? What are fatty acids?
400

Humans take an average of 20,000 breaths per day while dogs take an average of 30,000 breaths per day both using this body system and its main organ.

What is the respiratory system and what are the lungs?

500

This part of your brain is still developing!

What is the Frontal Lobe?

500

M'Kenna has this digestive illness and it causes her to need to avoid foods including this protein. TWO ANSWERS NEEDED 

What is celiac disease? What is gluten?

500

This lobe helps you decide if the shoes are teal and grey or pink and white!

What is the occipital lobe?
500

The only macromolecule to be broken down in the first organ of digestion, the mouth. 

What are carbohydrates?

500

This system contains your largest organ and protects the body from the environment, regulates temperature, and includes skin, hair, and nails. 

What is the integumentary system?

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