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Scavenger Hunt: The Human Body |
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Read each questions, then click on the link under the question to find the answer. After you have written the answer on your answer sheet, click the BACK button on your browser to return to this page. |
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| Muscular System | |
| 1. | About 40% of your body is made of muscles. That's almost half of your body! About how many muscles do you have? |
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| 2. | What are the three types of muscles in your body? |
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| Urinary System | |
| 3. | Most people have two kidneys. How big are each of your kidneys? |
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| 4. | So, now you know you only need one kidney. What do you need these kidneys for, anyway? (What do they do?) |
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| Digestive System | |
| 5. | Your esophagus is the tube that connects your mouth to your stomach. How long is it? |
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| Circulatory System | |
| 6. | Ya gotta have heart! About how big is your heart? |
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| 7. | About how many times will your heart beat during your lifetime? |
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| 8. | We all know smoking is bad for you. About how many people die each year from smoking-related heart disease? |
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| The Brain | |
| 9. | How much does your brain weigh? |
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| Endocrine System | |
| 10. | The what? The endocrine system is a system made up of glands and it does BIG things. What does it do? |
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| Respiratory System | |
| 11. | Your respiratory system includes all the parts you need to breath (like your lungs, windpipe and diaphragm). Look at the picture on the web page...where is your diaphragm located? |
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| Skeletal System | |
| 12. | You'd be a floppy beanbag without your skeletal system (bones) to hold you up! Besides holding you up, what is another purpose bones have? |
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| 13. | When you were born, you had over 300 bones. But an adult has only 206. What happened to those other bones? |
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| Skin | |
| 14. | Your skin is the largest organ in your body! It's made of thin sheets of cells, which die and fall off. About how many dead skin cells fall off your body every minute? |
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