Body Basics
This liquid makes up about 60% of your body.
What is water
This organ helps you breathe.
What are the lungs?
This tool measures your temperature.
What is a thermometer?
The average adult heart beats about this many times per minute at rest.
60 to 100
This body part can still grow after you die.
What are hair and nails?
This organ pumps blood through your body.
What is the heart?
This organ filters waste from the blood and makes urine.
What are the kidneys?
Doctors use this to listen to your heart and lungs.
What is a stethoscope?
This part of the body never stops growing.
Fingernails and hair
This is the only part of your body that has no blood supply—it gets oxygen directly from the air.
What is the cornea (eye)?
The average adult body has 206 of these.
What are bones?
This organ makes insulin to help control sugar in the blood.
What is the pancreas?
Nurses use this to check your blood pressure.
blood pressure cuff (sphygmomanometer)?
This fluid helps cushion and protect your brain.
cerebrospinal fluid?
This muscle is the strongest in your body based on size.
What is the tongue?
This is the largest organ of the body.
What is the skin?
This organ stores bile to help digest fats.
What is the gallbladder?
This machine takes pictures of bones.
an X-ray?
This sense is most strongly linked to memory.
What is smell
Laughter actually does this to your body.
What is release endorphins (the “happy” chemicals)?
The red cells in blood mainly carry this gas.
What is oxygen?
This organ controls your body and is protected by the skull.
What is the brain?
This device can restart a stopped heart with electricity.
What is a defibrillator?
The study of the human body is called this.
What is anatomy?
Sneezes can travel at up to this many miles per hour.
What is 100 mph (or faster)?