Digestive System
What is the first part of the digestive system where food enters the body?
Mouth
True or False: When you go to sleep at night, the respiratory system stops working.
False
When you are born, are you born with more or less bones than an adult?
Less
Eating this nutrient is super important for growing muscles
Protein
What is the organ that pumps blood throughout the body?
Heart
What is the part of the digestive system where food is broken down and nutrients are absorbed into the body?
Small Intestine
You have 2 ______________, which are almost like inflating balloons
Lungs
What is the name of the bone that protects your brain?
Skull
You have over ____________ muscles
600
What are the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart to the body?
Arteries
What is the muscular tube that connects your mouth to your stomach and moves food through the body?
Esophogus
What is the tube that carries air from your throat to your lungs?
trachea
What part of the skeletal system connects bones together at joints?
Ligaments
What is the name of the muscle found in the heart that helps pump blood throughout the body? You cannot control this muscle
Cardiac muscle/Involuntary muscle
What are the blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart?
Veins
What is the organ that stores bile and helps break down fats during digestion?
What is the organ that stores bile and helps break down fats during digestion?
What is the name of the small air sacs in your lungs where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged
Alveoli
What is the name of the tendon down near your ankle that connects your foot bone to your calf muscle?
Achilles Tendon
What type of muscle helps you move your body and is attached to your bones?
How many chambers are in the heart?
4
What is the organ responsible for producing insulin to break down blood sugar?
Pancreas
The air you exhale is called ____________.
Carbon Dioxide
What is the name of the long bone in your arm that connects your shoulder to your elbow?
Humerus
You better stretch! Or you might do this to a muscle that isn't warmed up.
Strain, pull a muscle
Poor diet, lack of exercise, and other unhealthy habits, can lead to this disease, which is the number one cause of death in America
Heart Disease