The Skeleton
If one bone is broken or out of place, the other bones around it can still work properly. True or False
What is - False? If one bone is broken, all the bones around it can’t perform their duty properly.
You can do these things to make your skin more healthy....while these three things speed up the aging process/decrease the quality of your skin? name 2 or more.
What is - drink water (increase blood flow and nutrients to the skin, including collagen), exercise (same), use sunscreen (protects from bad sun-rays). What is - nicotine, alcohol, caffeine? They all constrict your blood vessels and thus, the blood flow to the skin.
This organ considered to be the main filter of the body and has hundreds of jobs.
What are - the liver and the kidneys? The liver has to process (remove/decide) bad things in the blood (alcohol, drugs, poison)...breakdown the good stuff (vitamins, certain medicines, and minerals)...and breakdown fats, protein, and carbohydrates. Our body will eventually remove some of the bad things or store/keep the good things to be released as needed.
How far do you have to walk to burn off an M&M?
What is - the length of a football field?
Ligaments do this, while tendons do this??
Ligaments connect bones to other bones, while Tendons connect muscles to bones?
The skin you are wrapped/covered with is the same as the one from this summer. True or False?
What is - False? The entire surface of your skin is replaced every month, or to put it another way...you have about 1,000 different skins in your life! Every minute, we shed about 30,000 dead skin cells!!
This is the other main filter of the body.
What are - The Kidneys?
We are tallest at this moment in the day/night.
What is - when you first wake up. You are about 1cm taller in the morning when you first get up than when you go to bed. This is because during the day the soft cartilage between your bones gets squashed and compressed.
The average humans has 206 bones, but we are born with 300 bones. True or False
What is True? We are born with approximately 100 more bones that are small, tiny, and fragile. these bones eventually fuse together to form bigger, longer, thicker bones!
The phrase - "black don't crack" - refers to this interesting fact about the skin?
Skin color is caused by melanin which also protects from UV rays.
By keeping our blood clean, this organ helps our body to stay healthy.
What is - the Liver? It helps our immune system to be strong enough to fight off certain/many diseases.
This is the only 2 body part that never stops growing and this one never grows after you are born.
What are - the ears and nose...and the eyes?
These two body parts have more than half of all the bones in your body.
What are - the hands (54) and feet (26)?
Your skin is the largest - what - of the body...and weighs this much?
What is - ORGAN, weighing 8lbs? (The liver is the 2nd largest - 3lbs)
The kidneys are an organ in this (of 12) body systems.
What is - the urinary system? BONUS: name the other systems.
The average human produces enough spit in your lifetime to fill over 100 bathtubs...or...two swimming pools?
What is - two swimming pools? (25,000 quarts, 40,000 liters, or 500 bathtubs)
Your bones are vital to keeping us alive! They produce these 3 vital elements that are necessary for life.
What are - 1) red blood cells, 2) white blood cells, and 3) platelets? Red cells pick up oxygen as blood passes through the lungs and release it to the cells in the body. White cells help fight bacteria and viruses. Platelets help your blood clot in response to a cut or a wound.
Your skin does these three things to keep you alive.
What is - 1) protects you from the environment, 2) regulates body temperature, and 3) allows your body to feel.
While you are born with two of these, you can survive with just one of these organs.
What are - The Kidneys
This move in Hojo Undo is what we do to ensure good blood and air flow.
What is - Shin Kokyu?