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Big round (ages 12 and up): 🫀 Your body · 🦁 Animals. Ten questions. Tap a box to see the answer.
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The ten, for a host reading aloud
- 1.In the retina, which cells sense color?
- A hair cells
- B rods
- C cones
- 2.Cattle digest plants using a four-compartment stomach. What group of animals does that make them?
- A marsupials
- B ruminants
- C rodents
- 3.What tough cords hold skeletal muscles to bones?
- A capillaries
- B tendons
- C ligaments
- 4.What grows in grooves on a two-toed sloth's hairs and can turn its fur green?
- A mold
- B algae
- C moss
- 5.What are the lowest two pairs of ribs, not joined to the breastbone in front, called?
- A floating ribs
- B sliding ribs
- C hanging ribs
- 6.What is the snail-shaped, fluid-filled part of the inner ear called?
- A the cochlea
- B the cornea
- C the larynx
- 7.Which protein in red blood cells carries oxygen?
- A keratin
- B insulin
- C hemoglobin
- 8.What are the tiny air sacs in the lungs where oxygen and carbon dioxide swap?
- A villi
- B alveoli
- C bronchi
- 9.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
- 10.What is the outer layer of your skin called?
- A the cortex
- B the dermis
- C the epidermis
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- C: cones. Each eye has about 120 million rods, which see in black, white and gray. Source: KidsHealth (Nemours)
- B: ruminants. Their complex stomach turns tough plants into energy and building blocks for the body. Source: Smithsonian's National Zoo
- B: tendons. When a muscle pulls, its tendon and the bone move along with it. Source: KidsHealth (Nemours)
- B: algae. The grooves run from the top to the bottom of each brownish-gray hair. Source: Smithsonian's National Zoo
- A: floating ribs. They can't float away: like all ribs, they are fixed to the spine in back. Source: KidsHealth (Nemours)
- A: the cochlea. Tiny hair cells inside it help turn sound into electrical signals for the brain. Source: NIH National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
- C: hemoglobin. Blood turns bright red when hemoglobin picks up oxygen in the lungs. Source: KidsHealth (Nemours)
- B: alveoli. Each person has hundreds of millions of alveoli in their lungs. Source: KidsHealth (Nemours)
- A: the cerebellum. It is much smaller than the cerebrum but lets you stand up and move around. Source: KidsHealth (Nemours)
- C: the epidermis. Below it is the dermis, which holds nerve endings, blood vessels and sweat glands. Source: KidsHealth (Nemours)
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