Bones
Senses
Organs
Animal Senses
100

What element, common in milk, is important to growing healhty bones?

Calcium

100

What are the 5 main senses?

Sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell.

100

Name 4 organs

Various
100
Some snakes have pits along their snouts. What can these pits detect?

Thermal energy

200

This substance is both the startpoint of our bones and continues to make up our ears and noses.

Cartilage

200

What two senses are linked completely together? If you lose one, you lose the other.

Taste and Smell

200

What paired organ can be donated without harming the donor?

The kidney

200

Lateral lines on aquatic animals allow them to sense this energy

Pressure waves

300

Although largely considered to be part of the skeleton, these pieces are formed of mainly enamel and dentin.

Teeth

300

What body part controls our sense of balance?

The semicircular canals

300

What organ is able to completely regenerate itself?

The liver


300

Bees and some birds can sense this form of light that help guide them towards flowers

Ultraviolet

400

How many teeth in a typical, mature human

32 (when including wisdom teeth)

400

What are the three type of color cones in human eyes? (hint: they are not exactly the primary colors)

Red, blue, green

400

What is the heaviest organ?

The skin

400

Some fish can use muscle contractions to generate fields of this energy for detection and hunting 

Electricity

500

How many bones in a fully mature human skeleton?

207

500

What is the sense that allows humans to keep track of their body parts without seeing them?

proprioception

500

How many times does an average human heart beat?

2.5 to 3 billion times

500

Elephants can use their feet to communicate thorought his type of sound

Ultrasound