This protects our bodies by keeping out germs, bacteria, and other harmful materials.
What is skin?
100
When it's cold, muscles in the skin cause hairs on the body to stand up and keep warm air closer.
What are goosebumps?
100
You should do this daily to remove dead skin cells and help keep skin looking healthy.
What is take a shower or bath?
100
A fungi can cause this skin disease that is in the shape of a circle. Towels and hats used by infected people can spread this fungi. Medicine is needed to treat this fungi.
What is ringworm?
200
Skin cells at the base of the epidermis contain a substance that determines your skin color.
What is melanin?
200
After getting a cut, it is important to do this so that germs do not enter the body.
What is wash and care for the cut?
200
Tiny tubes that go from the inside of the body to the surface of the skin and help maintain your body's temperature.
What are sweat glands?
200
When in the sun, this can shield your skin from damaging ultraviolet rays that cause sunburn and could cause skin cancer.
What is sunblock?
200
These parasites need to be pulled off and destroyed if found on the skin. They can spread disease!
What are ticks?
300
Skin, hair, and nails make up this system in the human body.
What is integumentary system?
300
When hot, your skin creates sweat to help control this.
What is body temperature?
300
Some may wear these to help trap warm water next to skin and insulate the capillaries.
What is a wetsuit?
300
These things may also shield you from the sun.
What are hats and umbrellas?
300
Lice are parasites that can easily move from one person to another. This needs to be done when you are treating a person with lice.
What is wash and bag all stuffed animals, toys, comforters, pillows, rugs, and furniture?
400
The thick layer of skin that contains sweat glands, blood vessels, nerve endings, and the roots of hair.
What is the dermis?
400
The nerve endings in the dermis allow you to feel heat, cold, pressure, touch, and pain. The nerve endings allow your skin to give you information about this
What is the environment?
400
More heat is lost from this part of the body than any other body part.
What is the head?
400
This can increase the number of wrinkles on your face and hands as you grow older. It shrinks the capillaries, preventing nutrients and moisture from reaching the skin.
What is smoking?
400
This is the best defense against injuring skin when you ride a bike or skateboard.
What is wear protective equipment?
500
Sweat glands release sweat through these openings in the epidermis.
What are pores?
500
When there is a cut in the skin's surface, your skin replaces the damaged cells with news ones in this part (clue: top or bottom) of a specific layer of the skin.
What is the bottom part of the epidermis?
500
These expand when the body becomes to warm so that more blood flows near the surface of the skin. As more blood enters these, heat flows from the warm blood to the skin, and then to the cooler environment.
What are capillaries?
500
As you grow older, this pulls down on your skin over the years and is reason why we get wrinkles.
What is gravity?
500
Protect your skin so that it can continue to do this.