The Brain
This is the boss, the commander, of our whole body.
What is the brain?
What is a skeleton?
This part of our eye lets light in.
What is the pupil?
This part of nocturnal animal eyes gets larger than ours to let in more light.
What is the pupil?
This scientist studied chimpanzees.
Who is Jane Goodall?
These are fibers in our body that carry messages to and from the brain.
What are nerves.
This is cutting apart a body to study the inside.
What is dissection?
This part of our eye sends messages to the brain.
What is the optic nerve?
This type of animal is most active at night.
What is nocturnal?
This is when you pay close attention to something using all your senses.
What is observing?
This type of nerve carries messages from our senses to our brain.
What are sensory nerves.
This is the stringy tissue that connects bone to muscle.
What are tendons?
This part of the eye moves to control the amount of light that enters.
What is the iris?
This part of the eyes of nocturnal animals reflects light after it enters through the pupil.
What is a tapetum?
This is what Galileo studied closely.
What is the moon?
This is a type of nerve that carries messages from our brain to our muscles.
What are movement nerves.
When a body moves, the muscle pulls on this.
What is a tendon?
This is a part of diurnal mammal eyes which helps to focus an image.
What is a lens?
This type of mammal is most active during the day.
This is what you are doing when you tell others about your science design and results.
What is sharing?
This is what is happening when our brain is "thinking", after information comes into it from the sensory nerves.
What is making decisions.
This has to tense and tighten in order to move our arm.
What is a muscle?
These are TWO parts of the eye that sit in the back of diurnal mammal eyes.
What is the retina and the optic nerve.
These are the THREE things that make nocturnal animal eyes different from diurnal animal eyes.
What are bigger eyeballs, bigger pupils, and a reflective tapetum.
This is the scientist we studied, who discovered fossils.
Who is Mary Anning?