Human Body
This organ pumps blood around your body.
What is the heart?
You use your ears for this sense.
What is hearing?
Humans use this system of words, signs, or gestures to communicate.
What is language?
This round invention helped humans transport heavy objects more easily.
What is the wheel?
Solar panels produce energy using light from this object.
What is the Sun?
This is the largest organ of the human body.
What is the skin?
This automatic response prepares your body to face danger or escape from it.
What is the fight-or-flight response?
A group’s shared customs, beliefs, arts, and way of life are called this.
What is culture?
Johannes Gutenberg helped develop this machine, allowing books to be produced much faster.
What is the printing press?
This technology allows machines to learn patterns and perform tasks associated with human intelligence.
What is artificial intelligence (AI)?
These blood cells carry oxygen around the body.
What are red blood cells?
This word means understanding and sharing another person’s feelings.
What is empathy?
In this form of government, citizens help choose their leaders by voting.
What is democracy?
In 1903, these two brothers completed the first successful powered and controlled airplane flight.
Who were the Wright brothers?
Scientists can use this tool, sometimes called “genetic scissors,” to edit DNA.
What is CRISPR?
This is the number of bones in most adult human bodies.
What is 206?
Most vivid dreams happen during this stage of sleep.
What is REM sleep?
Created in 1945, this international organization helps countries cooperate and maintain peace.
What is the United Nations?
Named after Louis Pasteur, this process uses heat to reduce harmful microbes in food and drinks.
What is pasteurization?
A headset can place you inside a computer-generated environment using this technology.
What is virtual reality?
This molecule contains the genetic instructions for building and operating your body.
What is DNA?
This is the brain’s ability to change and form new connections through learning and experience.
What is neuroplasticity?
These unwritten rules influence how people are expected to behave in a group.
What are social norms?
Modern computers represent information using this number system made from zeroes and ones.
What is binary code?
This British mathematician proposed a famous test of whether a machine could display human-like intelligence.
Who was Alan Turing?