Animals & mammals
Here are answers to some commonly asked questions:
- How much water is in Elephants?
- 70%
- Which animals have no eyes?
- Jellyfish, flat worm
- What are the animals that grow body parts?
- Worm, lizards, starfish
- How long do Pandas live for?
- About 30 years at the most
- source: Kim, Melissa; The Giant Panda
More about animals
Animal Names:
Humans
- How many bones in the human body?
- An adult has about 206 bones.
- The number of bones varies from person to person because of the differences in the number of small bones in the hands and feet. The bones are distributed in this way: skull, 29; spine, 26; ribs and breastbone, 25; shoulders, arms, and hands, 64; pelvis, legs, and feet, 62.The central support for your entire body is your spine. It is made up of 26 linked bones, called vertebrae, which become progressively larger down your back.
- source: Janice Van Cleave’s The Human Body for every kid.
- How many muscles in the human body?
- 639
- source: World Book Encyclopedia
- Muscles come in all shapes and sizes, depending on their location and function. The muscles make up about 40 percent of your body weight
- source: Janice Van Cleave’s The Human Body for every kid.
- Why do we shiver?
- Shivering: The contraction of skeletal muscles to produce body heat; controlled by the hypothalamus. At the command of the hypothalamus, the body increases all the chemical and physical processes of the body, resulting in an increase in internal heat
- source: Janice Van Cleave’s T he Human Body for every kid.
- Why do we sweat?
- Sweat: Liquid produced by sweat glands that contains mostly water with dissolved salts and other substances. When the temperature of the skin increases, sweat glands produce sweat. Your body cools itself by sweating.
- source: Janice Van Cleave’s The Human Body for every kid.
- What is the average temperature of the human body?
- 37C