The Human Body

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1.Which How many bones does a newborn's skeleton hold, before some fuse into the adult 206?
- A. Frida Kahlo
- B. the digital camera
- C. about 300 bones
- D. the graduation cap toss
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about 300 bones
Did you know? Babies' skeletons contain more bones than adults'.
2.Which body feature are unique to every person, even identical twins?
- A. fingerprints
- B. the birthmark
- C. the tongue print
- D. freckles
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fingerprints
Did you know? Fingerprints form before birth and never change.
3.Which body part help keep sweat out of the eyes?
- A. the eyelid
- B. fingernails
- C. the Adam's apple
- D. eyebrows
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eyebrows
Did you know? Eyebrows also help with facial expression.
4.Which body process is the body's way of flushing irritants from the nose?
- A. gray hair
- B. the body clock
- C. blinking
- D. sneezing
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sneezing
Did you know? A sneeze can send droplets flying at high speed.
5.Which human trait shows up in about one person in ten?
- A. the three musketeers
- B. about 100,000 hairs
- C. left-handedness
- D. Liberty Leading the People
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left-handedness
Did you know? Left-handedness is more common in some sports.
6.Which sense carries most of what we call flavor?
- A. the chef's tasting menu
- B. the sense of smell
- C. Madame Bovary
- D. Rococo
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the sense of smell
Did you know? A blocked nose makes food taste bland.
7.Which skin reaction appear when the body feels cold or fear?
- A. chopsticks
- B. Murasaki Shikibu
- C. goosebumps
- D. Oliver Twist
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goosebumps
Did you know? Goosebumps are a leftover reflex from furry ancestors.
8.Which twins begin as a single fertilized egg?
- A. identical twins
- B. Florence
- C. Mary Shelley
- D. Liberty Leading the People
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identical twins
Did you know? Identical twins share nearly the same DNA.
9.Which body feature darken with sunlight?
- A. freckles
- B. dandruff
- C. fingerprints
- D. the tongue print
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freckles
Did you know? Freckles are common in fair skin.
10.Which body part is a small bone in front of the knee joint?
- A. the tonsils
- B. the eyelid
- C. eyebrows
- D. the kneecap
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the kneecap
Did you know? The kneecap protects the knee joint.
11.Which body process moistures and shields the eyes hundreds of times a day?
- A. blinking
- B. gray hair
- C. sneezing
- D. the body clock
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blinking
Did you know? People blink more when talking and less while reading.
12.Which body part marks where the umbilical cord once attached?
- A. the Achilles tendon
- B. the wrist pulse
- C. the belly button
- D. the human nose
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the belly button
Did you know? Belly buttons come in two shapes, innies and outies.
13.Which body process loses pigment as we age?
- A. the body clock
- B. gray hair
- C. blinking
- D. sneezing
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gray hair
Did you know? Gray hair results from less melanin.
14.Which body part is made of eight interwoven muscles?
- A. the wrist pulse
- B. the fingertip
- C. the tonsils
- D. the tongue
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the tongue
Did you know? The tongue is one of the most flexible muscles.
15.Which body part are patches of tissue at the back of the throat?
- A. the belly button
- B. the philtrum
- C. the appendix
- D. the tonsils
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the tonsils
Did you know? Tonsils are part of the body's defense tissues.
16.Which body part shield the eyes from dust?
- A. the tonsils
- B. eyelashes
- C. the kneecap
- D. the fingertip
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eyelashes
Did you know? Eyelashes fall out and regrow in cycles.
17.Which body part shrinks in bright light and widens in the dark?
- A. the middle fingernail
- B. the fingertip
- C. the eyelid
- D. the pupil
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the pupil
Did you know? The pupil is the dark center of the iris.
18.Which How many hairs does the average scalp carry?
- A. about 100,000 hairs
- B. Caravaggio
- C. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- D. cuneiform
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about 100,000 hairs
Did you know? Hair count falls naturally with age.
19.Which body feature is made of flakes of scalp skin?
- A. the dominant eye
- B. the birthmark
- C. dandruff
- D. freckles
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dandruff
Did you know? Dandruff flakes are dead skin cells.
20.Which body fluid is nearly odorless until skin bacteria break it down?
- A. chopsticks
- B. sweat
- C. 1984
- D. Salvador Dalí
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sweat
Did you know? Sweat is nearly odorless; body odor comes from skin bacteria.
21.Which body measure usually matches a person's height?
- A. arm span
- B. Pinocchio
- C. the Northwest Passage
- D. Jackson Pollock
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arm span
Did you know? Arm span is used in tailoring and sports.
22.Which body part bristles with nerve endings?
- A. the foot arch
- B. the wrist pulse
- C. the foot
- D. the fingertip
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the fingertip
Did you know? Fingertips are among the most touch-sensitive spots.
23.Which body process runs on a roughly 24-hour cycle?
- A. blinking
- B. gray hair
- C. sneezing
- D. the body clock
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the body clock
Did you know? The body clock is set mainly by light.
24.Which body substance protects and cleans the ear canal?
- A. Surrealism
- B. earwax
- C. the Ferris wheel
- D. the lucky penny
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earwax
Did you know? Earwax works its way out of the ear on its own.
25.Which bone is the largest bone of the foot?
- A. Ötzi
- B. the shared pot of tea
- C. an acronym
- D. the heel bone
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the heel bone
Did you know? The heel bone takes the first impact of each step.
26.Which sleep phenomenon occur mostly during rapid eye movement sleep?
- A. the Japanese tea ceremony
- B. dreams
- C. the Spanish tapas tradition
- D. the Turtle
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dreams
Did you know? Most dreams are forgotten within minutes.

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