Muscular and Skeletal
What is the main function of the muscular system?
Movement for the body
1. What is the main function of the respiratory system?
Gives the body oxygen and gets rid of carbon dioxide (waste)
What is the main function (or job) of the circulatory system?
To pump blood throughout the body.
What are the three main parts of the nervous system?
The brain, spinal cord, and nerves.
What is the main purpose of the digestive system?
To turn food into energy for the body
Name two bones that protect vital organs. What organ do they protect?
Ex: Ribs - heart and lungs
Skull - Brain
What are the main parts of the respiratory system?
Nose, Trachea, Lungs, Bronchi/Bronchioles and the diaphragm
What are the three main parts of the cardiovascular system?
The heart, blood vessels (arteries, veins, capillaries), and blood
What organ is the control center (command center) for the body?
The Brain
What are the 5 main parts of the digestive system?
Mouth, Esophagus, Stomach, Small Intestine, and Large Intestine.
Some muscles move because you choose to move them. Some muscles, like your heart and stomach, move without you thinking about it. What are these two categories of muscles?
Voluntary and Involuntary Muscles
What organ helps the lungs to operate? It's a muscle that contracts and relaxes to squeeze the lungs to help you breathe.
The diaphragm. When the diaphragm contracts you breathe in and when it relaxes you breathe out.
1. Carries oxygen rich blood away from the heart to all parts of the body?
2. Carries oxygen poor blood from the body back to the heart?
1. Arteries
2. Veins
What part of the nervous system helps sends signals to and from the brain? (Also known as the highway of the nervous system)
The Spinal Cord
Which part of the digestive system absorbs nutrients from food?
The small intestines
List the 3 main functions (jobs) of the skeletal system
1. Shape/Support
2. Protects vital organs
3. Make Blood Cells
Which system does the respiratory work with to transport oxygen to all parts of the body?
The Circulatory system. The oxygen travels through the blood stream.
Which two systems does the circulatory system work with to send oxygen and nutrients to all parts of the body?
The respiratory system and the digestive system
What do you have all over your body that gathers information/signals to send to the brain?
The Nerves
What is inside your stomach that helps to break down food and separates the nutrients inside of food?
Stomach Acid/Bile
How do muscles move bones? Think about how the biceps and triceps help move the arm.
Muscles work in pairs and pull on bones. One muscle Contracts (or squeezes) and the other one relaxes.
To bend the arm the bicep contracts and the triceps relaxes. The opposite happens to straighten the arm.
After we breathe in oxygen to our lungs, where does the oxygen go?
Oxygen is sent to the heart then it is transported to all parts of the body through the blood stream.
What are the 5 main functions of the blood?
1. Carries oxygen to cells
2. Removes waste (to lungs, kidneys, liver)
3. Transports white blood cells
4. Takes nutrients to body
5. Helps send messages (hormones)
What body system does the nervous system control?
*Daily Double*
All of them
Skeletal, muscular, circulatory, respiratory, and digestive
What two organs add digestive enzymes to the small intestines?
Liver and pancreas