Skeletal System
This bone in your arm is kind of "funny."
What is the humerus?
This muscle flexes your arm.
What is the biceps brachii?
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These are the cells in our blood that carry oxygen throughout our body and remove carbon dioxide.
Hint: These also give blood its color.
What are red blood cells?
This cell is the basic unit of communication within our body.
What is a neuron?
What is the clavicle?
These muscles are on the back of your thigh.
What are hamstrings?
This is the type of tube that carries oxygenated blood away from the heart.
What is an artery?
This is the amount of blood we have in our body.
What is the amount of 4-6 quarts (1.2-1.5 gallons)?
These two things compose the central nervous system.
What are the brain and spinal cord?
This is the bone that is the hardest to break in the body.
What is the femur?
This muscle is commonly known as your bottom.
What is your gluteus maximus?
This is the first chamber where blood enter into the heart.
What is the right atrium?
These cells aid provide immunity and defense against foreign agents in our bodies.
What are white blood cells?
This is the initial prompt of a reflex.
What is a stimulus?
This is the number of vertebrae in the thoracic region of the spine.
Name one of the two calf muscles.
What are the gastrocnemius and the soleus?
This is the average resting heartrate of a human.
What is 60-100 beats per minute?
These are the component of blood that aids in clotting a wound.
What are platelets?
These are the the spider looking things that receive information in our neurons.
What are dendrites?
This is the law that states bone is remodeled in response to the force applied to it.
What is Wolff's Law?
This is the way muscles work.
Describe sliding filament theory.
This is the amount of times your blood circulates throughout your body in a single day.
What is about 1000 times?
This component makes up over half of the blood volume.
What is water?
This is what is actually hit when you bump your funny bone causing your arm to go numb.
What is the ulnar nerve?