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Internet Scavenger Hunt

Purpose: The purpose of this Internet scavenger hunt is to become familiarized with the Internet and the science resources that are available.  Use the links provided to find the answers to the questions. As you circulate through the hunt, use a bookmark of this hunt to speed your return to this hunt page. Have fun and catch a glimpse of the exciting science subjects you may study in my health class!  Ms. Killian

Body Systems

 

TISSUES, ORGANS, AND SYSTEMS

Use http://www.mhhe.com/biosci/ap/histology_mh/ttypes.html to answer questions 1-4

1. Sketch an Epithelia - simple squamous cheek smear 400x cell.  To see what this looks like, click on:

Epithelial simple squamous
cheek smear 400x frame 1

2. Sketch a Connective Tissue - compact bone cross-section,200x

3. Sketch a Muscles - skeletal muscle long. sec. striations 1000x

4. Sketch a Nervous Tissue - multipolar neuron, spinal cord smear 200x

 

SKELETAL SYSTEM

                                                           

Use the following URL to answer question 5.
http://www.innerbody.com/image/skelfov.html

5. ____________________ Give the scientific name for the point at the bottom of the sternum.

Use the following URL to answer question 6.
http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html

6. Muscle is attached to bone by ____________________ and other tissues.

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

                                                           

Use http://kidshealth.org/kid/body/digest_noSW.html to answer question 7.
 

7. An adult's small intestine, stretched out would be about  feet ____________________ long.     

CIRCULATORY SYSTEM        

                                                               

       "In a full heart there is room for everything,
and in an empty heart there is room for nothing." ~ Antonio Porchia

8. Take the Narrated Heart Tour. Click on English - Human Heart 7. The heart has 4 chambers. Each of these chambers plays an important role in the circulation of blood through the heart.

List them in order of the flow of blood through the heart:

            1. __________________________

            2. __________________________

            3. __________________________

            4. __________________________

 

10. If a coronary artery becomes blocked what happens?

MUSCULAR  SYSTEM

 

                               

11. The masseter is a muscle on the______________. Its job is to move the ___________ so we can  __________.

Use http://courses.byu.edu/bin/common/course.pl?course_id=_16031_1&frame=top to answer question12.

12. Your muscles make up about one HALF of your body's weight! For example, that means if you weigh 100 pounds, about 50 pounds of you is pure muscle! Humans have ____________________  number of muscles in their body?

Use http://danke.com/kidsmuscles/biceps.htm to answer question 13.

13. The word "biceps" means _________________.

Use http://danke.com/kidsmuscles/myosact.htm to answer question 14.

14.Inside your muscles are tiny filaments made of myosin and ______________.

 RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

                                            

Use http://www.lungusa.org/resp_fl/lungsfinal.html to answer question 15.
 

15. Our body needs Oxygen.  __________ blood cells carry Oxygen from the ___________ sacs to the rest of the body.

Use http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/flash/body/pg000138.html to answer questions 16-17.

16. You breathe in or inhale about ________ times per minute?

17. Your lungs contain almost __________ miles of airways.

 

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