Anatomy Shared Between Garden Gnomes and Humans Quiz

The head on both people and garden gnomes is very important. It sits at the top of the body and is quite hard because of the bones that make up the skull. The skull protects the brain that sits inside it.

The shoulders in both garden gnomes and humans are joints at the top of the arms. The shoulders connect the arms to the body. The shoulder joints are like a ball that rotates around inside a socket to allow the arms to swing around, and to lift up and down.

The knees are the joints midway down the legs in both humans and garden gnomes. The knee has a bone inside called the knee cap, or patella. It also has ligaments, which are stretchy tissues that are attached to both the lower leg and the upper leg. This helps these body parts to stay together while they move back and forth during bending, walking, running, or standing.

Humans usually have five toes on each foot. It is hard to know how many toes a garden gnome has since most of the time, they are shown with shoes or boots. It is likely that they have toes, though, since those parts of our bodies help us to balance while standing, and garden gnomes do a lot of that.

In humans, our toes also help to give us balance while walking or running, which is not something a garden gnome has to worry about since they just stand around in our gardens.

Both humans and garden gnomes have eyes on the front of our heads. The eyes usually pick up light and colour from the world around us. Those signals are then sent to the brain which then helps us to figure out what it is that we are seeing. People who have difficulty seeing things are visually impaired. Garden gnomes are probably visually impaired since their eyes don't really work.

The ears for garden gnomes are on the sides of their heads, under their hair. Most humans have ears at the sides of our heads too. The ears pick up sounds and send them to the brain so we can make sense of the noises around us. It is important to have two ears because that helps us figure out where sounds are coming from. If sounds are louder in one ear than in the other, the sound is likely coming from that side of the head.

The mouth is very important to both gnomes and humans. For humans, it is the part of our body that we use for things like eating and talking. Gnomes and humans also use their mouths for a very important reason. The mouth lets us show emotion by smiling (happy), scowling (angry), and frowning (sadness).

These are just a few emotions that can be shown with the mouth. In many cases, garden gnomes are shown as smiling, but every now and then, you see them frowning, or with no real emotion shown by a straight mouth across their faces.

The nose is on the front of the face in both humans and garden gnomes. Humans use their noses to breathe air in and out. The air enters the nose, then travels to the lungs where it is processed and oxygen is gathered. The oxygen is then carried through our bodies to nourish all of our organs.

When humans breathe out, we send away carbon dioxide that we do not need to survive. Garden gnomes just have noses for decoration since they don't really need to breathe.

Almost all garden gnomes have beards. Their beards are typically white, which suggests that they are older adults. Beards are made of hair that grows on the chin and lower face. Human men sometimes grow beards too. In most cases, men have facial hair that grows every day.

Some men choose to shave it off every day, so they have smooth skin showing on their faces. Some decide not to shave, so those men grow beards just like gnomes.

A cap isn't really a part of the body, but almost all garden gnomes are seen wearing bright red caps, so I thought I would include it. The caps are known as Phrygian caps. They are shaped like an upside-down cone. Even though this gnome's hat stands straight up, most often they have the top tip bent over a bit.

These caps have been worn by men for a very long time, dating back to Ancient Greek times. They are shown on Ancient Greek art and sculptures. Today, they have come to represent freedom for many humans.

In fact, Phrygian caps can be seen on the Coats of Arms of the countries of Argentina, Colombia, Bolivia, and Cuba. The people that live in those countries all fought to be free from the control of other countries that had invaded them.