Bones
The "funny" bone.
What is the humerus?
This flexor muscle pulls the ulna and radius toward the shoulder. It's how you bend your elbow.
What is the biceps?
This is the ability to see how close or far away something is.
What is depth perception?
Aristotle defined this group of animals as living in the sky and laying eggs.
What are birds?
This is the bone in the forearm nearest the pinky.
What is the ulna?
This bone is the longest bone in the body, and it's in the leg.
These muscles control the fingers.
What are the forearm muscles?
This nerve sends signals from the EAR to the brain.
What is the auditory nerve?
Aristotle correctly guessed that this kind of sea animal is not a fish.
What are dolphins, or whales, or porpoises, or any cetacean mammals?
This is the bone in the forearm nearest the thumb.
What is the radius?
These bones in the fingers and the toes have the same names, the word for lines of Greek soldiers holding spears.
What are the phalanges?
This large muscle in the leg unbends the knee and helps you stand up from sitting.
What is the quadriceps?
Usually these kinds of animals have eyes that face the front, they hunt for food.
What are predators, carnivores, or meat eating animals?
What are hunters?
Linnaeus focused on these two kinds of bones to help him tell the differences between animals.
What are teeth and feet bones?
This muscle unbends the elbow.
What is the triceps?
This is the latin name for your kneecap.
What is patella?
This muscle extends your foot so you can stand on your tiptoes.
What is the calf muscle?
These are the five parts of taste, the five main flavors in food.
What are sweet, salty, savory (or umami), bitter, and sour.
This animal or group of animals has bones in the eye, which means the eyes don't move very much in their sockets.
What are owls? What are birds? What are dinosaurs?
BONUS DOUBLE: Recite the rule of threes.
Your body can go 3 minutes without air, 3 days without water, and 3 weeks without food.
This is the latin word for the bones of the spine.
What are vetebrae (p) or vertebra (s).
What are the pectoral muscles?
What are the pecs?
What is the latin name for the muscle that controls how big or small the pupil is?
What is the iris?
Finish this sentence... "Eyes on the side..."
Eyes on the side, likes to hide. Eyes in front, likes to hunt.
This is the latin name for the shoulderblade.
What is the scapula?