Body Systems
These balloon like sacs that inflate and deflate, bringing air into and out of the body.
What are the lungs?
This structure provides the human body initial protection from disease-causing organisms
What is skin?
This connects bones to bones
What are joints?
This system breaks down food for the body to use
What is the digestive system?
Produces offspring
What is the reproductive system?
Food travels down this long tube from the mouth to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
Cell membranes are made up of
What are lipids?
This removes liquid waste
What is the urinary system?
Stores minerals, allows movement, gives support and structure
What is the skeletal system?
This pumps blood through the body
What is the heart?
Movement, support, and protection
What are the skeletal and muscular systems?
This muscle moves food throughout the digestive system
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what are smooth muscles?
Connects bones to muscles
What are ligaments?
To maintain homeostasis by releasing hormones
What is the endocrine system?
A structure that secretes a hormone
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What is a gland?
Strong flexible tissue that cushions two bones and allow them to move smoothly
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What is cartilage?
This part of the immune system fights off infection and disease
What are white blood cells?
This allows flexibility, where bones are connected to each other
What are tendons?
Transports needed materials such as oxygen and nutrients to cells and carries away wastes such as carbon dioxide
What is the circulatory system?
Releases insulin
What is the pancreas?
Main parts of this body system include the brain and spinal cord
What is the nervous system?
A group of cells that work together to preform a certain function
What are tissues?
This organelle is like the protein super-highway providing pathways for proteins to travel throughout the cell.
What is the endoplasmic reticulum
A group of different tissues that work together to perform a certain function
What are organs?
These protect organs and tissues
What is the integumentary system?