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Big round (ages 12 and up): Your body. 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. What is the outer layer of your skin called?
- A. the cortex
- B. the epidermis
- C. the dermis
2. What tough cords hold skeletal muscles to bones?
- A. ligaments
- B. capillaries
- C. tendons
3. In the retina, which cells sense color?
- A. hair cells
- B. cones
- C. rods
4. What are the tiny air sacs in the lungs where oxygen and carbon dioxide swap?
- A. alveoli
- B. villi
- C. bronchi
5. Which protein in red blood cells carries oxygen?
- A. hemoglobin
- B. keratin
- C. insulin
6. Which part of the brain, at the back below the cerebrum, helps you keep your balance?
- A. the cerebellum
- B. the pituitary gland
- C. the hypothalamus
7. What are the lowest two pairs of ribs, not joined to the breastbone in front, called?
- A. sliding ribs
- B. hanging ribs
- C. floating ribs
8. What is the snail-shaped, fluid-filled part of the inner ear called?
- A. the cochlea
- B. the cornea
- C. the larynx
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The key (for the host: fold this page back)
- B: the epidermis. Below it is the dermis, which holds nerve endings, blood vessels and sweat glands.
- C: tendons. When a muscle pulls, its tendon and the bone move along with it.
- B: cones. Each eye has about 120 million rods, which see in black, white and gray.
- A: alveoli. Each person has hundreds of millions of alveoli in their lungs.
- A: hemoglobin. Blood turns bright red when hemoglobin picks up oxygen in the lungs.
- A: the cerebellum. It is much smaller than the cerebrum but lets you stand up and move around.
- C: floating ribs. They can't float away: like all ribs, they are fixed to the spine in back.
- A: the cochlea. Tiny hair cells inside it help turn sound into electrical signals for the brain.
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