The primary function of muscles
What is movement?
The primary function of the heart.
What is pumping blood through the body?
The primary function of the lungs.
What is breathing? (Air exchange, respiration, bringing in oxygen, pushing out CO2)
The names of the 2 parts of our intestines.
What is the small and large intestine (colon)?
The worst habit to have for your lungs.
What is smoking?
The most important nutrient to keep bones strong.
What is calcium?
The four chambers of the heart.
What are the right ventricle, the right atrium, the left ventricle and the left atrium?
The black substance that can build up in your lungs if you are a smoker.
What is tar?
The main organ used for breaking down food using chemical digestion.
The amount of time we need to be active every day.
What is 60 minutes?
The number of bones in an adult skeleton.
206 bones
The structures that carry OXYGENATED blood AWAY from the heart.
What are arteries?
The name for the sections of the lungs.
What are lobes?
The first step in mechanical digestion.
What is chewing?
The kind of physical activity that is structured, planned, and purposeful - with the intention of improving physical fitness.
What is exercise?
The substance that protects the ends of our bones from rubbing together, and also makes up our nose and ears.
The kind of exercise that works out the heart muscle.
What is cardiovascular(cardio) or aerobic exercise?
The tiny sacs in the lungs where oxygen exchange happens in the blood.
What is alveoli?
The organ which filters blood coming from the digestive tract.
What is the liver?
The number of servings of fruits and vegetables we should eat every day.
What is 5 servings?
The biggest bone in the human body.
What is the femur?
The kind of blood cells that carry oxygen to our body.
What are red blood cells?
The large muscle that sits underneath your lungs and works with them to draw in oxygen, it is the primary muscle of respiration.
What is the diaphragm?
The involuntary movement of muscles of the intestinal walls that creates wave-like movements useful for pushing food through the intestinal tract.
What is peristalsis?
The 6 main classes of nutrients the human body needs to survive.
What are carbohydrates, protein, fats, vitamins, minerals and water?