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Middle round (ages 9–11): Your body · Animals. Pages: the ten question cards, two answer sheets to a page (print one page per two teams), and the key on the last page, to fold back.
1. Where in your body is your smallest bone?
- A. in the ear
- B. in the nose
- C. in the little toe
2. How far away can a male wild turkey's gobble be heard?
- A. up to 10 feet
- B. up to one mile
- C. up to 100 miles
3. How many chambers, or rooms, does the human heart have?
- A. six
- B. four
- C. two
4. Besides hearing prey under the sand, what do a fennec fox's giant ears help it do?
- A. stay cool
- B. dig burrows
- C. stay warm
5. About how many taste buds is a person born with?
- A. about 1 million
- B. about 10,000
- C. about 100
6. About how many muscles are in your body?
- A. fewer than 60
- B. more than 600
- C. fewer than 200
7. What happens to the pupils of your eyes in bright light?
- A. they get smaller
- B. they get bigger
- C. they change color
8. Which wide teeth at the back of your mouth grind up food?
- A. the canines
- B. the molars
- C. the incisors
9. How many bones does a grown-up's body have?
- A. 406
- B. 206
- C. 106
10. Which waste gas do your lungs breathe out?
- A. carbon dioxide
- B. oxygen
- C. helium
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The key (for the host: fold this page back)
- A: in the ear. It is called the stapes, or stirrup, and it helps you hear.
- B: up to one mile. Wild turkeys can fly up to 54 miles per hour, though only for short trips.
- B: four. The top two are the atria and the bottom two are the ventricles.
- A: stay cool. For its body size, the fennec fox has the biggest ears of any kind of dog or fox.
- B: about 10,000. Taste buds sit in the little bumps on top of your tongue, called papillae.
- B: more than 600. Muscles do jobs from pumping blood to lifting a heavy backpack.
- A: they get smaller. The pupil is really an opening that lets light into your eye.
- B: the molars. Your tongue pushes chewed food back to the molars to be mashed.
- B: 206. A baby starts with about 300 bones, and some of them grow together.
- A: carbon dioxide. Your lungs take oxygen into your blood and let carbon dioxide out.
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