Body Basics
This liquid makes up about 60% of your body.
What is water
This organ controls your body and is protected by the skull
What is the brain?
This tool measures your temperature.
What is a thermometer?
The name for the study of the human body?
what is anatomy?
What is the strongest finger?
What is the pinky?
This organ pumps blood through your body.
What is the heart?
This organ helps break down food
What is the liver, stomach or intestine?
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
What percent of DNA do humans share?
(guesses can be +/-5% of the correct answer)
What is ~96%?
What is the largest organ?
What is the skin?
This organ makes insulin to help control sugar in the blood.
What is the pancreas?
What is the scissor-like tool used by surgeons to grasp and hold tissue?
What are forceps?
The average human heart beats this many times per minute
what is 60 to 100 beats per minute?
This muscle is the strongest in your body based on size.
What is the tongue?
What is the primary gas that red blood cells carry?
What is oxygen?
This organ filters waste from the blood and makes urine
What are the kidneys?
Nurses use this to check your blood pressure.
(double points if you get the technical name)
what is a blood pressure cuff (sphygmomanometer)?
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)?
How many bones does the average adult have?
What is 206?
This organ stores bile to help digest fats
What is the gallbladder?
This device can restart a stopped heart with electricity.
What is a defibrillator?
This fluid helps cushion and protect your brain.
What is cerebrospinal fluid?
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)?