Skeletal System
The smallest bones in the human body are located in this part of the body
What is the ear?
This connects muscles to bones
What is a tendon?
These two body parts make up the nervous system.
What is the brain and spinal cord?
Breathing is an exchange process of carbon dioxide and this gas.
What is oxygen?
The size of the heart is roughly that of our fist and weighs approximately this amount.
What is 11 ounces? (About the weight of a bag of chocolate chips)
In the digestive system, most of digestion occurs here.
What is the small intestine?
This amount is the weight of an average adult skeleton.
What is 15-20 pounds?
Through excercise muscles can be increased in size by this percentage.
What is 15-20%?
While the brain makes up 2% of our total body weight, it requires this percentage of our blood supply.
What is 20%?
Every minute about this many pints of air pass into the lungs.
What is 10-12 pints?
The network of arteries, veins, and capillaries is extraordinarily dense. In an adult it is more than this many miles long.
What is 60,000 miles long?
The stomach is a hollow organ capable of holding this many pints of food and liquids.
What is 4-6 pints?
The main blood cell production occurs in these large flat bones located in these places of the human body.
What are the brest bones, ribs, shoulder blades or pelvis?
This type of muscle is present to control to control hollow organs such as a bladder or uterus.
This is the largest part of the brain.
What is the larynx growing larger and thiicker?
Cardiovascular disease is hte number one cause of death globallyt. According to the World Health Organization more than this many people die of heart disease every year.
What is 17 million?
Two hormones, insulin and glucagon, are secreted by this organ.
What is the pancreas?
This is a tissue of the body that is not supplied with blood.
What is cartilage?
This gender has more muscle mass.
What is male?
Nerve cells can travel at speeds up to this many miles per hour.
What is 250 mph?
Risk of contracting lung cancer as a smoker increases by this amount, compared to a non smoker.
What is 20 times more likely in smokers versus non smokers?
Your heart beats around 70 times per minute. This is the amount of blood it pumps every time it beats.
What is 1 cup?
The bodys total blood volume flows through the kidney around this many times per hour.
What is 15 times?
This joint typically bares the most weight in the human body.
What is the knee?
When a muscle shortens, is is described as this.
What is contraction?
Nerve fibers originate directly from this part of the body.
What is the brain or spinal column?
The surface area of the lungs is the same size as this sport court.
What is a tennis court?
In an adult normal blood pressure at rest is considered to be this.
What is under 120/80mmHg? mmHg means milimeters of mercury, used in the first accurate barometers.
Excess alcohol intake causes fat to accumulate in this organs cells, causing lasting even fatal damage.
What is the liver?