The Muscular System
The Nervous System
Eyes and Vision
Joints and Muscles
The Skeletal System
The Brain
100

There are about ____ muscles in the human body,

What is 650?  Take any answer between 500 - 800

100

The nervous system is made up of _________.

What are nerves?

100

The _______ is the black part in the center of the eye.

What is the pupil?

100

The place where two bones come together is called a ___________.

What is a joint?

100

The skeletal system is made up of ________ that give your body shape.

What are bones?

100

The brain is divided into ________ main parts:

What is 3?

200

True or False:

About half of your body’s weight comes from muscles.

What is True?

200

You have about a _________ nerves in your body.

What number goes in the blank?

What is a billion?

200

The_______ is the colorful part of the eye that surrounds the pupil.

What is the  iris?

200

Many joints are cushioned by __________.

What is cartilage?

200

There are more than ______ bones in your body

What is 200?

200

The medulla controls the important involuntary actions of the body, _________________

What is like breathing, heartbeat, and digestion?

300

Voluntary muscles are muscles that you can_____________. 

What is make move and control?  Or something near that...

300

The nerves send _______ to the brain.

What are messages?

300

 The________ is a thin, clear tissue that covers the colored part of the eye. It helps protect the eye from dirt and germs.

What is the  cornea?

300

We have cartilage between each of the __________ vertebrae in our spinal column.

What is thirty or so?

300

You might think the skull is all one big bone. But that’s not the case. In fact, a human skull is a set of _____ bones.

What is 22?  

300

The outside part of the cerebrum is called the cerebral cortex. The cerebral cortex is the _______ part of the brain that most people think about when they think of a brain.

What is wrinkly?

400

Involuntary muscles work without you even thinking about them. These muscles work ___________.

What is automatically?

400

What is testing your reflexes?

400

The _________ is made of a special kind of tissue that is very sensitive to light. Light from the lens falls on the retina. Then, nerves in the retina send messages to the brain.

What is the retina?

400

Ligaments connect bones to other bones. __________ connect muscles to bones.

What are Tendons?

400

The spinal column is made up of more than thirty smaller bones, stacked one on top of another. These smaller bones are called __________.

What is the vertebrae?

400

It is the largest part of the brain.

What is the cerebrum?

500

Give an example of voluntary muscles and involuntary muscle. 

What are......?

500

The nerve cells have long stringy parts that lead away from the center. The center of the cell is called the cell body. The stringy parts that lead away from the cell body are called ___________.

What are dendrites?

500

These messages travel down a nerve called the __________   __________.

What are the optic nerve?

500

One of the most famous tendons in the body is called the __________ tendon.

What is the Achilles [ə-KIL-eez] tendon?

500

Two of these bones in your leg are called the ________ and the _____________.

Just have to name one of them.

What are the tibia and/or the fibula?

500

Name something interesting about the cerebellum.

What is ......The right hemisphere controls movement on the left side of the body. The left hemisphere controls movement on the right side. It might seem strange that the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body, but that’s just the way we’re made.

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