The Human Body

HOW CONTINENTAL!

SANDWICHES & Subs
THE CALL OF THE WILD
100

On average, this human organ covers between 14 & 18 square feet

Skin

100

July temperatures on this continent range from about -94 to a balmy high of around -40

Antarctica

100

Martha Stewart's favorite recipe for this sandwich includes light mayo & uses 10 whites & only 2 yolk

an egg salad sandwich

100

The Jamaican fruit type of this emits high-frequency calls to orient itself in the dark

Bat

200

These identifying ridges on the hands are visible on human fetuses at about 4 months

Finger Prints

200

This continent covers only about 5% of the earth's land area; deserts cover about 1/3 of the continent 

Australia 

200

Kraft informs us that Americans eat 2.2 billion of these cooked sandwiches a year

Grilled Cheese

200

The field type of this leaping insect chirps by rubbing a scraper on one forewing along a row of teeth on the other forewin

Cricket

300

The average life span of these receptor cell groups in the mouth is 8-10 days

Taste bud

300

This continent has the longest freshwater lake, 420 miles, in the world

Africa 

300

A sandwich specialty of Montreal is this pastrami-like delight, viande fumee en francais

Smoked meat
300

The adult male of this Asian great ape makes a "long call" heard for more than a mile & lasting up to 5 minutes

an orangutan

400

In the average human body there is enough of this element, atomic no. 6, to make about 900 pencils

Carbon

400

Both the highest & lowest places on earth are on this continent

Asia

400

This instrument, in its simplest form a tube with mirrors, enables the sub crew to see above the surface of the water

Periscope

400

This species of swan, cygnus buccinator, is named for its low-pitched call

the trumpeter swan

500

This lowermost portion of the brainstem is responsible for regulating both heart rate & respiration

Medulla Oblongata

500

A waterfall on this continent has the longest drop in the world, 3,212 feet

South America

500

U1, this country's first naval submarine, entered service in 1906

Germany

500

This animal call is the loudest in the world at 180 decibels and can be heard 800 kilometers away

The Blue Whale

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