What is the tube in your throat that connects to your stomach called?
The esophagus
100
Heart rate can be increased by things other than exercise. Give an example of one.
When someone drinks an energy drink, caffeine can increase the heart rate.
100
How many muscles are in your face
about 60
100
The windpipe is known by this scientific name.
What is the trachea.
100
The heart is a muscle. How is it different from a skeletal muscle?
The heart never tires. Skeletal muscle gets tired and can become sore.
200
True or False, the large intestine comes before the small intestine?
False.
200
whats the smallest bone in your body
stirrup
200
The hormone that causes you to be ready to fight or flee when you are on a roller coaster that is exciting or scary.
What is adrenaline.
200
What does the respiratory system do?
It brings O2 to your body and takes CO2 out of your body, Lets you breath.
200
name the two colours of blood cells
white, red
300
Sometime in your teens you've begun to develop body hair and your shape has begun to change. What glands are responsible for this. (Name for both Girls and Boys).
What are the testes (boys) and the ovaries (girls).
300
Whats another word for cartilage
Gristle
300
The organ that makes insulin to lower blood glucose levels after a meal by stimulating the absorption of glucose by the liver and muscles.
What is the pancreas.
300
The scientific name for the voice box.
What is the larynx.
300
Which side of your heart is stronger, and why?
The left side because it has to pump blood to the entire body.
400
A fertilized egg.
What is a zygote.
400
does cartilage or bone rot faster
cartilage
400
how many muscles does it take to frown?
40
400
True or False,
Your right lung is slightly larger then your left
True.
400
how many red blood cells are in the average women's body?
5.0 million
500
Besides the digestive system, to what other system does the pancreas belong to?
Endocrine system.... the pancreas contains 'islets' of cells which produce a number of hormones - most notably insulin and glucagon.
500
how many bones are in an adult body
206
500
How many muscles does it take to smile?
20
500
True or False
Women and children breathe faster then men