Levels of Organization
List the five levels of organization from simplest to most complex.
cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism.
Cardiovascular and Respiratory
respiratory takes oxygen in, cardiovascular distributes it through the body.
You feel a bug crawling on your arm. What two systems are used to detect the bug and then swat it away?
Nervous and Muscular
A patient comes to you with the following symptoms: nausea, a heavy cough, and rash. Which body systems are being impacted?
digestive, respiratory, integumentary.
Put the following in order from the most complex level to most simple level:
lungs, epithelial cell, respiratory system, epithelial tissue.
Muscular and Digestive.
What two systems work most closely together to heal you when you are sick?
A. respiratory and muscular
B. digestive and excretory
C. excretory and immune
D. immune and cardiovascular
D
You see a patient who is having trouble producing and transporting hormones to their correct location in the body. Which systems are most directly impacted?
endocrine and cardiovascular.
A student is comparing levels of organization to a student, class period, entire seventh grade, North Gwinnett middle school, and all Gwinnett County Schools. Which of the following would be compared to something like the root system of a plant?
middle school
How are tissues and organs related?
A. organs make up tissue
B. tissue and organs make up cells
C. tissue works together to make up organs
D. cells make up organs
C
Skeletal and Cardiovascular
blood cells made in the bone marrow if the skeletal system are transported through the cardiovascular system.
You are about to run an important race. Your heart rate starts to speed up along with how fast you are breathing due to the release of adrenaline into the bloodstream. What systems are working together?
endocrine, cardiovascular, (optional nervous)
A patient comes to you that has a low count of white blood cells. What is CAUSING this issue and what EFFECT will that have on other body systems?
skeletal not producing white blood cells, the immune won't be able to fight infections without WBCs.
A student is comparing levels of organization to units of time. She uses seconds, minutes, hours, days and weeks. If a cell is a second- which level would be compared to a day?
Organ System
The xylem are vascular bundles of cells working together to help transport water through plants. What level of organization is this an example of?
Tissue
Excretory and Integumentary
removing waste from the skin by sweating.
Your kidneys filter your blood. This is an interaction between what two body systems?
Excretory and Cardiovascular
A marathon runner feels exhausted, short of breath, and eventually collapses at the finish line- her muscles no longer functioning properly. Explain what three systems played a role in this event and how.
Respiratory, cardiovascular, muscular.
A student is using letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, and pages to make an analogy to human body systems. Which level would be compared to something like the kidney?
sentences- an organ
List all of the levels of organization and provide an example at each level.
Answers will vary.
Nervous, Endocrine, Cardiovascular.
Anytime when a hormone would need to be released.
Create your own original analogy for the levels of organization.
Answers will vary.