This body system works by contracting and relaxing to create movement.
What is the muscular system?
This is the smallest unit that makes up all matter.
What is an atom?
This organ pumps about a 1500 to 2000 gallons of blood per day in adults.
What is the heart?
This is the name of the tissue that assists in movement.
What is muscle tissue?
This is the organ that provides an outer covering to the cell and regulates what comes in and out.
What is the plasma membrane or cell membrane?
This system supports and protects vital organs as well as working in coordination with the muscular system to provide movement.
What is the skeletal system?
This is any living thing.
What is an organism?
This organ brings in about 5 - 8 L of air per minute.
What is/are the lungs?
This tissue is the type of tissue that provides covering over the outside of organs and the outside of the body.
What is integumentary tissue?
This is the organelle that makes proteins.
What are ribosomes?
This system is responsible for adding oxygen to the blood and removing carbon dioxide and other wastes from the body.
What is the respiratory system?
This is the smallest unit of life that carries out life functions.
What is a cell?
This organ is vital for detoxifying poisonous substances.
What is the liver?
This type of tissue that transmits impulses to send messages.
What is nervous tissue?
This is the organelle that breaks down food into ATP, a type of energy cells can use.
What is the mitochondria?
This system detects and responds to sensory information by sending impulses throughout the body.
What is the nervous system?
This is a group of tissues that work together to perform a particular function.
What is an organ?
This organ stores bile that is used to help break down fat.
What is the gallbladder?
What is connective tissue?
This is the portion of the cell where DNA is stored.
What is the nucleus?
This system is very important for maintaining homeostasis by secreting hormones and includes the adrenal glands, pituitary gland, thyroid gland, and pancreas.
What is the endocrine system?
This is a group of similar cells that work together.
What is a tissue?
This organ is vital in order to help maintain the blood sugar by producing insulin.
What is the pancreas?
These are the four main types of tissues.
What are connective, epithelial, nervous, and muscular tissue?
This is the part of the cell where ribosomes are made.
What is the nucleolus?