Vocabulary
The maintenance of a constant internal environment when outside conditions change.
What is homeostasis?
This system allows movement of body parts.
What is the muscular system?
This system sense danger.
What is the nervous system?
Fact or opinion: Responding to change allows all systems to work properly.
What is a fact?
Fact or opinion: Many diseases which affect homeostasis are hereditary.
What is a fact?
This is the protective covering of the body.
What is integumentary system?
This system produces eggs and nourishes a developing fetus.
What is the female reproductive system?
This system causes the heart to beat faster to deliver oxygen through the circulatory system to muscles.
What is the endocrine?
If the brain senses the body temperature is getting too low, it tells the body to do something.
What is shiver?
The presence of this can disrupt homeostasis.
What are toxins, pathogens, of germs?
This breaks down the food into nutrients that can be used by the body.
What is the digestive system?
This system returns leaked fluid back to the blood.
What is the lymphatic system?
These systems work together to help you run from danger.
What are muscular and skeletal systems?
Body conditions change too much and prevent this from doing its job.
What are cells?
This can prevent cells from carrying out life processes.
What are toxins?
This system gets rid of the waste in the body.
What is the excretory system?
This system gathers oxygen from the environment and gets rid of carbon dioxide from the body.
What is the respiratory system?
This organ sends electrical messages to the muscles to tell them to move.
What is the brain?
If the external environment changes, body systems work together to remain ___________.
What is stable?
This can breakdown cells.
What are pathogens?
The liver and intestine are in this system.
What is the digestive system?
This system moves blood through the body.
What is cardiovascular system?
This system sends chemical messages through the bloodstream to certain cells.
What is the endocrine system?
To maintain homeostasis, the body must recognize the conditions are changing and then respond in the right way.
What are organs communicating properly?
A lack of this can cause disease of death.
What is food.