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Easy genius science projects with the human body : great experiments and ideas / Robert Gardner.

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"Science projects and experiments about the human body"--Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0766029271
  • ISBN: 9780766029279
  • Physical Description: 112 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Berkeley Heights, N.J. : Enslow Publishers, [2009]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (page 110) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Scientific Method 8 -- Chapter 1 Your Beating Heart and Air-Filled Lungs 11 -- 1.1 Taking a Pulse 13 -- 1.2 Listen to Your Heart 15 -- 1.3 Returning to the Heart 16 -- 1.4 Take a Breath 18 -- 1.5 Breathing Rates 23 -- 1.6 Air, Lung Air, and Carbon Dioxide 24 -- 1.7 Blood Pressure 28 -- 1.8 Effect of Body Position and Exercise on Heart Rate, Breathing Rate, and Blood Pressure 31 -- Chapter 2 Come to Your Senses 35 -- 2.1 Ears, Sounds, and Hearing 36 -- 2.2 Ears and Locating Sounds 39 -- 2.3 Ears and Balance 41 -- 2.4 Taste 42 -- 2.5 Taste and Smell 45 -- 2.6 Touch 47 -- 2.7 Where Are the Cells Sensitive to Touch Most Abundant? 48 -- Chapter 3 Your Eyes on the World 51 -- 3.1 How the Human Eye Forms Images 53 -- 3.2 A Model of the Human Eye 54 -- 3.3 Pupil: Doorway to the Eye 57 -- 3.4 Are Two Eyes Better Than One When Locating Objects? 59 -- 3.5 Blind Spot 64 -- 3.6 Two Eyes, Two Images 65 -- 3.7 Afterimages 66 -- 3.8 Afterimages and Color 67 -- 3.9 Persistence of Vision 70 -- 3.10 Rods, Cones, and Color 71 -- Chapter 4 Food, Digestion, Energy, and Excretion 73 -- 4.1 How Does Food Move Through Your Body? 74 -- 4.2 Teeth Are For Chewing 77 -- 4.3 Catalysts and Enzymes 79 -- 4.4 Digestion, Starch, and Amylase 81 -- 4.5 Energy Stored in Food 83 -- 4.6 What Is in Your Urine? 87 -- Chapter 5 More Projects with the Human Body 91 -- 5.1 Is a Stationary Target Always Easier to Hit? 92 -- 5.2 Reflexes 93 -- 5.3 Your Reaction Speed 95 -- 5.4 Muscles Come in Pairs 98 -- 5.5 Feeling Double 100 -- 5.6 Your Center-of Mass, That Is! 101 -- Appendix 2 Science Supply Companies 107.
Subject:
Biology projects > Juvenile literature.
Human biology > Juvenile literature.

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