Muscles
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Cool Facts
100

This is the number of muscles that your body must use to create a smile.

What is 17?

100

These joints, which don't move at all, can be found in your skull.

What are fixed joints?

100

These bones protect organs like the heart, lungs and liver etc.

What are the ribs?

100

Milk is a good source of this mineral which helps make our bones strong.

What is calcium?

100

The "bones" in sharks are not actually bones at all, but are made of this instead.

What is cartilage?

200

These anchor muscles to the bones.

What are tendons?

200

Your jaw is an excellent example of this type of joint that can only move in one direction.

What is a hinge joint?

200

These are made inside your bones.

What are blood cells?

200

This is the number of bones in an adult.

What is 200?

200

Bone is stronger than this substance found in skyscrapers.

What is steel?

300

These are the types of muscles you can control.

What are skeletal muscles?

300

This joint allows movement in all directions.

What is a ball-and-socket joint?

300

These anchor muscles to the bones.

What are tendons?

300

They are the strongest bones in the skeleton.

What are teeth?

300

This creature has more bones in its neck than a giraffe.

What is a sparrow?

400

When muscles get shorter to help us move.

What is contracting?

400

Our spine is an example of this kind of joint.

What is a sliding joint?

400

Soft, squishy pieces of cartilage between the bones in your spine to help you move your back.

What are discs?

400

You have 33 of these stacked on top of one another in your back.

What are vertebrae?

400

When cracking your knuckles, you are actually pulling your bones apart and creating these.

What are air bubbles?

500

These are tiny tissues like rubber bands and it takes thousands of them to make up each muscle in your body.

What are fibers?

500

This joint is found in the thumb and allows movement in two directions.

What is a saddle joint?

500
Shoes are designed to reduce this in your bones and muscles.

What are impact and shock?

500

This is the hard membrane on the outside of a bone.

What is the periosteum?

500

The largest bone ever found was 8.2 feet long, and belonged to this dinosaur.

What was the Argentinosaurus?