Human Body
Humans produce enough saliva to fill up two entire ___
A. Football Fields
B. Swimming Pools
C. Basketball Courts
D. None of the above
What is B. Swimming Pools?
This common element will expand when it is frozen.
What is water (H2O)?
Water will contract down to around 4 degrees Celsius. At this point it begins to expand again. It will increase in size by 9% by the time it reaches the freezing point. This all has to do with hydrogen bonds.
Mitochondria are the ___ ___ of the _____.
What are the Powerhouses of the Cell?
The human brain utilizes ____% of oxygen the body takes in.
A. 20%
B. 50%
C. 25%
D.15%
What is C. 25% of oxygen?
This scientist is known for inventing/patenting the first telephone.
A. John McCarthy
B. Edward Teller
C. Alexander Graham Bell
D. Linus Pauling
Who is C. Alexander Graham Bell?
a Scottish-born inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885.
Adults have more/less bones than when we are born.
More or Less
What is less?
Our bones fuse together as we age. When we are infants we have 300 bones and as we become adults were only have 206.
Lightning strikes create ___.
A. Helium (He)
B. Ozone (O3)
C. Hydrogen (H)
D. None of the above
What is creates B. Ozone (O3).
Lightning strikes create ozone which is the reasoning for the smell after a storm.
There are more of these animals in the world then there are humans.
A. Ducks
B. Cats
C. Chickens
D. Dogs
What is C. Chickens
A mother hen turns her eggs about 50 times per day, and can lay more than 300 eggs per year.
There are 25 billion chickens in the world- There are also more chickens than any other bird species.
This is the strongest muscle in the human body.
A. Tongue
B. Biceps
C. Eyes
D. Esophagus
What is A. the tongue?
This well-known scientist aided in creating the atomic bomb during WWII.
A. George Wells Beadle
B. Donald Knuth
C. Albert Einstein
D. George Wald
Who is C. Albert Einstein?
These are the four components of blood.
What are white blood cells, red blood cells, plasma, and platelets?
This element is the most abundant element in the universe.
A. Oxygen (O)
B. Helium (He)
C. Hydrogen (H)
D. Carbon (C)
What is C. Hydrogen?
This animal has fingerprints so similar to humans that in a criminal investigation, detectives could mistake them for human prints.
A. Gorillas
B. Koalas
C. Aye-Ayes
D. None of the Above
What is D. Koalas?
The normal lifespan of a hair follicle is 3 to ___ years.
Within 1-10 years
What is 7 years?
This scientist is best known for their contributions to evolutionary biology.
A. Charles Darwin
B. Sir Isaac Newton
C. Stephen Hawking
D. Hugo Theorell
Who is A. Charles Darwin?
He was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to evolutionary biology. His proposition that all species of life have descended from a common ancestor is now widely accepted and considered a fundamental concept in science.
Osteoporosis and Arthritis are ____ related disorders.
What are bone related disorders?
Which both are known to reduce bone density.
The only letter not appearing on the periodic table is ___.
A. X
B. J
C. L
D. Y
What is B. J?
This animal is the only mammal known to not have a stomach.
A. Emu
B. Platypus
C. Porcupine
D. Greater Bilby
What is B. Platypus?
But the platypus hasn’t just lost a limb, it’s totally forgone the use of an organ most species would find vital. You see, the platypus has no stomach. Their food goes from their esophagus straight into the small intestine. The stomach, a large sack of acids and enzymes, is missing.
The heart beat that we can hear is due to the opening and closing of
A. Ventricles
B. Atrium
C. Valves
D. Arteries
What is C. Valves.
Heart sounds are created from blood flowing through the heart chambers as the cardiac valves open and close during the cardiac cycle.
This scientist is known for discovering the element Radium.
A. Elizabeth Damon
B. Beatrix Potter
C. Marie Curie
D. Constance Torrey
Who is Marie Curie?
In 1898 Marie Curie and her husband Pierre discovered the new radioactive element radium that would change the direction of science and medicine in the early 20th century. Radium has now been used in medical sciences.
The human brain stops growing around the age of 18 but continues development until the age of ___.
What is 25 years old?
By the time you feel thirsty, you've already lost about ___% of your body's water.
Between 1 and 10%
What is 1% of your body's water?
The loudest animal in the world is a ____.
A. Pistol Shrimp
B. Chimpanzee
C. Howler Monkey
D. None of the above
What is A. Pistol Shrimp
he loudest animal in the world is a mere 2cm long, prawn. The Pistol Shrimp is capable of snapping its claw shut so rapidly, that it creates a bubble which collapses to produce a sonic blast, louder than a Concorde’s (supersonic jet) sonic boom.
The left lung is smaller/larger than the right lung due to this reason.
Smaller or Larger and for what reason
This scientist was both a respected mathematician and NASA's first African-American manager.
A. Eunice Smith
B. Mary Jackson
C. Dorothy Vaughan
D. Katherine Johnson
(HINT: Hidden Figures)
Who is C. Dorothy Vaughan
Dorothy Vaughan and many of the former West Computers joined the new Analysis and Computation Division (ACD), a racially and gender-integrated group on the frontier of electronic computing. Dorothy Vaughan became an expert FORTRAN programmer, and she also contributed to the Scout Launch Vehicle Program.