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What is the body's ability to resist a particular disease?
Immunity
What is the largest lymphatic organ?
Spleen
These are the "wires" of your communication system.
Nerves
What is the hairlike projections that line the mucous membrane.
Cilia
What is the largest organ in your body.
Skin
What are enlarged bunches of lymphatic tissue?
Lymph Nodes
Sound waves travel from the outer ear through this to reach the eardrum.
Auditory Canal
What are the white blood cells inside lymph nodes?
Lymphocytes
What are the receptors that send messages to your brain which allow you to smell?
Olfactory
What gives the eye its color?
Iris
What is the special kind of skin cells that line your mouth, nose, and throat?
Mucous Membrane
What are the transportation tubes for lymph?
Lymph Vessels
What is the largest part of the brain, which controls thinking, reasoning and memory?
Cerebrum
What is the system that consists of the brain and spinal cord?
Central Nervous System
What is the hollow space in your skull the surrounds each eye?
Eye Socket
What is the center of the iris through which light passes?
Pupil
What is a person trained to examine eyes and prescribe glasses?
Optometrist
BONUS! Worth double! What is the part of the brain that helps with balance and coordination?
Cerebellum
What becomes thicker when you look at close objects, and thinner when you look at distance ones?
Lens
What carries messages to your brain, allowing you to hear?
Auditory nerve
What is the tough outer layer of the eye?
Sclera
What is the enzyme that kills bacteria in your tears and perspiration?
Lysozome
BONUS! Worth Double! What are unconscious actions, such as jerking your hand away from something that is hot?
Reflexes
BONUS! Worth Double! What is the part of the brain that communicates with the left side of the body?
Right Half
What are the bacteria and viruses that cause disease?
Pathogens