Trailblazers
Fraction Action
Food and Air
Body Basics
Bones and Muscles
200
Albert Einstein used (Pi--circumference of a circle) in many calculations , and this value of Pi happened to be his birthday in numeral form.
What is 3.14......?
200
6/8 is an example of: an improper fraction, a mixed fraction, or a proper fraction.
What is proper fraction?
200
Respiration--process of supplying oxygen to the body-- begins here.
What is the nose and mouth?
200
These donut-shaped cells carry oxygen throughout the body.
What are red blood cells?
200
These protect the heart, lungs, and liver and are connected to the spine.
What are the ribs?
220
Amanda Gorman became the youngest inaugural poet by speaking at this event in this year.
What is the presidential inauguration in 2021 (President Biden)?
220
This is the name of the top number of a fraction.
What is 'numerator'?
220
This is where digestion begins.
What is 'the mouth'?
220
Humans can help break down food with teeth; this is how the toothless platypus breaks down food in the mouth.
What is...'they gather tiny rocks in their mouths to mash food.'?
220
The human body has about 650 of these.
What are muscles?
240
The diary of this young girl details her life while hiding in the Netherlands from June 1942-August 1944 during the Holocaust.
Who is Anne Frank?
240
5/10, 2/4, and 1/2 are examples of: simplified fractions or equivalent fractions.
What is 'equivalent fractions'?
240
This type of digestion is when food is broken down physically--by teeth chewing or by the stomach's contracting muscles.
What is mechanical digestion?
240
This master organ includes the cerebrum, the cerebellum, and the ______ stem, which contains its name.
What is the brain?
240
This is the largest bone in the human body.
What is the femur?
260
In addition to building America's first striking clock and predicting the solar eclipse of 1789, Benjamin Banneker helped plan this capitol city.
What is Washington, D.C.?
260
Identify which of these fractions is a mixed number: 2/3, 15/2, or 3 1/2.
What is 3 1/2?
260
This is where most chemical digestion occurs, and nutrients are absorbed by villi (from chyme).
What is the small intestines?
260
This major organ is made of cardiac muscle.
What is the heart?
260
This system: shapes the body, protects the body, moves the body, and makes red blood cells.
What is the skeletal system?
280
This physician and engineer became the first black woman astronaut to travel in space in real life and on Star Trek.
Who is Dr. Mae Jemison?
280
Convert this improper fraction to a mixed number--10/3.
What is 3 1/3?
280
Air travels down the trachea into what hollow organs through the bronchi?
What are the lungs?
280
Name at least two of the four parts of blood.
What are: red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and plasma?
280
These are muscles you do not control; they work automatically.
What are involuntary muscles?
300
This Italian physician observed how children learned best and developed a method of education used around the world today.
Who is Dr. Maria Montessori?
300
Change this mixed number to an improper fraction--7 1/2.
What is 15/2?
300
The left lung has two lobes and is slightly smaller than the right lung with three lobes for this reason.
What is 'to make space for the heart'?
300
This basic building block of life has: a nucleus, an outer membrane, and many organelles.
What is a cell?
300
Some are voluntary and others are involuntary; a human body has these three types of muscles.
What is 'skeletal, smooth, and cardiac'?