BODY SYSTEMS #1
What do we call a complete living thing?
An organism?
This body system includes the skin, hair, and nails and protects the tissue that lies underneath them
What is the integumentary system?
This system breaks down the food that you eat into nutrients that your body can absorb.
What is the digestive system?
What bone protects your brain?
What is the skull?
The release of a mature ovum from the ovary
What is ovulation?
Name 4 organ systems in the human body.
reproductive, skeletal, circulatory, digestive, respiratory etc
Bones are a very numerous kind of tissue in your body. How many bones do humans have in their body?
206
A pair of tubes with fingerlike projections that guide the movement of the released ova
What are fallopian tubes?
Your skin is part of which body systems?
Integumentary or immune
This system produces and delivers sperm.
What is the male reproductive system
This system produces eggs and nourishes and protects the fetus.
What is the female reproductive system
Joints, where bones meet are an important part of your skeletal system. Identify three joints in your body.
What are shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees, ankles.
The structure that implants into the endometrium
What is a blastocyst?
This system removes wastes from the blood and regulates your body fluids.
What is the urinary or excretory system?
What are the two types of reproductive cells produced by make and female humans?
sperm & egg
Name two organs protected by your ribs and sternum
Heart, lungs, liver
The phase of the ovarian cycle after ovulation
What is the luteal phase?
Name the three types of muscles found in the body.
What is smooth, cardiac, and skeletal.
What are the two main reproductive organs that produce reproductive cells?
ovaries & testes
Name the organ in the digestive system that is long and thin and responsible for absorbing nutrients.
small intestines
The structure formed inside the ovary following ovulation
What is corpus luteum?
Blood vessels that bring deoxygenated blood back to the heart are called____________
What are veins
Blood vessels that connect veins and arteries are _____
What are capillaries
What are three ways your body removes wastes?
urinating, sweating, defecating, exhaling carbon dioxide
____________are blood vessels that bring oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the rest of the body.
What are arteries
Where a thick fluid rich in sugars is produced, contributing to the transport and nourishment of sperm
What are seminal vesicles?