Brain Drain
The average weight of the adult human brain
What is 3 pounds?
The number of chambers in the human heart
What is 4?
The largest organ in the body
What is the skin?
The muscle that contracts when you bend your elbow.
The average number of bones in the adult human body.
What is 206?
What is the occipital lobe?
The largest artery in the human body
What is the aorta?
The three primary layers of the skin.
What are the epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis (or subcutaneous layer)?
The three types of muscles
What are skeletal, cardiac and smooth muscle?
Phoebe's least favorite bone.
The two phases of the heart which are measured to describe blood pressure
What are systole/systolic and dyastole/diastolic?
The type of muscle found in your digestive system
What is smooth muscle?
Three bones that make up the arm.
What are the humerus, the radius and the ulna?
The part of the brain primarily responsible for decision-making.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
The parts of the heart responsible for the "lub-dub" sound that it makes
What are valves?
Two types of glands that help regulate body temperature
What are sebum and sweat glands?
Connects bones and muscles together
What are tendons?
The type of joint that allows your shoulder to move.
What is a ball and socket joint?
The 4 strengths of the brain from ages 12-24 that, according to Dan Siegel, comprise the the ESSENCE of adolescence.
The four main components of blood AND their primary functions
What are red blood cells (transport oxygen and CO2), white blood cells (aka leukocytes, which fight off infection), plasma (delivers water, hormones, nutrients etc. throughout the body), and platelets (aka thrombocytes responsible for clotting)?
What is Melanoma
The muscle that help move the shoulder
What are the deltoids? (Also acceptable, what is the trapizius?)
Condition caused by inflammation of the joints
What is arthritis?