Skeletal and Muscular Systems
The four jobs of the skeletal system
What is: Protection, Support, Movement, and Storage?
Pumps the blood through vessels to all of the parts of the body
What is the heart
This is the control center of the nervous system, part of the central nervous system.
What is the brain?
The hard outer layer of the bone
What is compact tissue?
The main part of the respiratory system, responsible for taking in oxygen and excreting carbon dioxide.
What are the lungs?
This muscular tissue is found ONLY in the heart.
What is cardiac tissue?
The largest blood vessels that connect to and bring blood toward and away from the heart
What are the arteries?
Your eyes, ears, nose, and tongue
What are sense/sensing/sensory organs?
Name the role of smooth muscle in the body and where it is found.
What is moving material through the body and organs?
Oxygen transfers to the capillaries from these structures in order to transfer it to the rest of the body.
What are the alveoli?
Another name for a nerve cell.
What is a neuron?
This is how many muscles are in the human body.
What is 640?
This part of the body is part of the respiratory system AND the digestive system.
What is the pharynx?
Group of neurons that pass along information
What are nerves