Brain and Central Nervous System
This part of your body is the main control center, giving orders to all areas of your body.
What is the brain?
This is the hardest working muscle in the body.
What is the heart?
You have two of these organs which inflate and deflate with every breath.
What are the lungs?
There are 206 of these in the human body.
What are bones?
Doing thyis strengthens and stretches the muscles to make them healthier.
What is exercise?
You can get a basic idea of teh brain's wrinkled appearance by looking at this vegetable.
What is a cauliflower?
The number of chambers, or special chambers, in the heart.
What is four?
When resting, children do this approximate 18-30 times per minute.
What is breathing or respiration?
These 12 pairs of chest bones protect the lungs and heart, both in front and in back of the chest.
What are the ribs?
These carry messages to muscles from the brain.
What are nerves?
Your brain weights about this amount when you are full grown.
What is three pounds?
Your hears rate can be easured by feeling this on your wrist.
What is your pulse (or radial pulse)?
Tis part of your respiratory system humidifies the air making it wet and warm before the air goes into your lungs.
What is the nose?
This is a helmet-shaped bone that protects the brain.
What is the skull?
These are very strong, rope-like tissues which anchor muscles to bone and make them stronger.
What are tendons?
The vertebrae are a bony protection fro this vital pathway.
What is the spinal cord?
This is the approximate sized of the heart muscle.
What is the size of your fist?
The name of the important gas that your body cells need in order to stay alive.
What is oxygen?
These bones protect the spinal cord.
What is the vertebrae/spine/backbone?
The heart is the only place where this kind of muscle is found,
What is the cardiac muscle?
This main nerve pathway sends messages to and from the brain.
What is the spinal cord?
Approximate number of times a person's heart beats per minute.
What is 60-100 times?
The name of the waste gas taht you breathe out bedause it is not needed by your body.
The bones protects the heart.
What is the sternum?
The name for muscles that we can choose whether to move or not.
What are voluntary muscles?