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Nature & science · Age 7 · Animals, Offspring & Movement

Bones Protect Your Body

Understand how your skeleton gives your body shape and protects important organs.

Module

Animals, Offspring & Movement

Age

Age 7

Duration

8 min

Questions

5

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  1. Question 1

    Multiple choice

    How many bones are in an adult human body (approximately)?

  2. Question 2

    Multiple choice

    Why are muscles important even though bones give us shape?

  3. Question 3

    Multiple choice

    If you bend your arm, the bicep muscle in your upper arm...

  4. Question 4

    True or false

    Muscles always work in pairs — one pulls the bone one way and its partner pulls it the other way.

  5. Question 5

    Matching

    Match each body structure to its job.

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