Circulatory System
What is a main part of the circulatory system?
Heart
What is the respiratory system?
The body's breathing system
Scenario: You are cooking mac and cheese and accidentally touch the hot stove top. Question: What is the stimulus of the above scenario?
Touching the hot stove top
What is the digestive system?
The body's food-processing system
The main function of the skeletal muscular system is:
provide movement
The purpose of the heart is to:
Pump blood through the body
What important activity takes place in the lungs?
Gas exchange
Which part of the body is the control center for the nervous system?
Brain
What happens when food reaches the stomach?
Acid mix with the food and stomach muscles squeeze it.
Cardiac muscles are located...
in the heart
What best describes your "pulse"?
Heart rate
The respiratory system moves _______ into your body and _________ out.
oxygen, carbon dioxide
What is the Nervous System?
The body's system of receiving information from the environment
Where does digestion begin?
Mouth
What are the three types of muscles?
smooth, cardiac, skeletal
What are the three blood vessels?
Arteries, veins and capillaries
You take a breath. What is the sequence that air travels within your body? (use at least three respiratory system parts)
Mouth/nose, pharynx, trachea, bronchioles, alveoli
What is the Central Nervous System made of?
Brain, Spinal Cord
Where does the partly-digested food (in liquid form) go after it leaves the stomach?
Small intestine
Muscles are attached to bones by...
tendons
Which blood vessels carry blood AWAY from the heart?
Arteries
This tissue allows the exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen IN THE LUNGS:
Alveoli
What are the two major divisions of the Nervous System?
Central, Peripheral
List the path that food travels through in the correct order:
Mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine and large intestine
Smooth muscles are located...
in the digestive system