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NOSE
HANDS
EYES
MOUTH
DNA
100

T/F - Your nose can distinguish between 1 trillion different smells.

True
100

Your hands are sensitive to ____, _____, and _____.

hot, cold, and pain

100

Your eyes are like a ______ constantly taking _____ and sending them to your brain.

camera constantly taking pictures

100

Canines are for _____

tearing food.

100

DNA is like a _____, storing piles of information.

library or super-computer

200
Your nose protects you from ____?

Danger. Imagine if you couldn't smell smoke? Your house would burn down.

200

What are fingernails for?

  • Fingernails have a network of nerves underneath them that enhance the sensitivity of the fingertip.
200

The dark circle in the center of your eye is called?

The pupil

200
You have about ________ (amount) taste buds in your mouth, mostly in your tongue.

10,000 taste buds

200

What is DNA?

a set of coded instructions

300

Tiny hairs inside your nose filter out _____ and _____ so they don't pass through your body.

dirt and germs

300

_____ injuries are common in sports.

Thumb

300

What does the pupil do?

It controls the amount of light it lets in. 


Your pupil expands in the darkness to let more light in and shrinks in the sunlight to allow less light in.


300

One kind of taste buds is highly sensitive to ______ tasting things.

Bitter tasting - these things are often toxic, taste buds serve as a important warning system.
300

DNA codes determine your ____, _____, and ______ color.

Eye, hair, and skin

400

Your nose and sinuses make about a _____ (amount) of mucus every 4 days.

A gallon

400

The skin on your palm is different because ______

it's designed to help grip objects, it creates friction for better control.

400

T/F - Your eyes picture everything upside down but your brain makes the pictures flip over.

True. Your brain does it so fast you don't even realize it!

400

God designed a flap called the epiglotis that tilts down and stops food from entering your _____ when you swallow.

voice box (larynx)

400

How much DNA do you share with siblings?

About 50%

500

_____ keeps your nose moist. It also warms the air you breathe so your lungs don't freeze.

Mucus

500

You use over ____(amount) joints and ____ (amount) muscles in your hands and arms to put one bite of food into your mouth.

30 joints and 50 muscles

500

________ removes extra tear fluid in your eyes.

The tear duct

500

In the course of a normal lifetime, you would produce enough saliva to fill two _____

swimming pools.

500

DNA stands for?

Deoxyribonucleic acid.