Unit 3 The Human Body Jeopardy Template

The Skeletal System	The Muscular System	The Nervous System	The Spinal Cord and Brain
100 What bone protects your brain? skull or cranium	100 About how many muscles are there in the human body? about 650 muscles	100 About how many nerves does your body have? about a billion nerves	100 Name 2 descriptors that tell us what the cerebral cortex looks like? wrinkly outer covering; gray matter
200 What is it called when you bruise your brain or hit your head really hard? concussion	200 What are two actions that are leg muscles help us do? run jump walk skip gallop tippy toe	200 What is the center of a nerve cell? cell body	200 What does the cerebellum control? voluntary muscles
300 What is the chain of bones that runs from the base of the cranium all the way down to your pelvis or hips? spinal column or spine	300 These muscles work automatically. involuntary muscles	300 What are the stringy parts of that lead away from the cell body? dendrites	300 What is another name for the medulla? brain stem
400 What are the more than 30 smaller bones called that stack up to make the the spinal column? vertebrae	400 These muscles are controlled by you. voluntary muscles	400 When a doctor taps your knee she's looking for ... to see if your nervous system is healthy. reflex reaction sends messages out along the dendrites	400 What does the medulla control? involuntary muscles
500 What are the three leg bones called? femur tibia fibula	500 These two muscles are involuntary and are not controlled by you. heart stomach	500 When one of the nerves in your body wants to send a message to your brain, it sends the message in or out along the dendrites? sends messages out along the dendrites	500 What are the three parts of the brain? cerebellum cerebrum medulla

Unit 3 The Human Body

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