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How many bones are in the adult body?
206
How many muscles are in the body?
More than 600
What are the five types of bones?
Long, short, flat, sesamoid, and irregular bones
What are three types of muscles in the body?
smooth
skeletal
cardiac
What are joints and give the three types of them?
Joints are where bone meets bone
Hinge- Knee/elbow
Pivot-Spine
Ball/Socket-Hip/shoulder
Main organ of the respiratory system
Lungs
Main organ of the circulatory system
Heart
Main organ of the digestive system
Stomach
Main organ of the nervous system
Brain
Purpose of skeletal system
Protects organs
Helps us stand up/support
Produces blood
Purpose of excratory system
to remove waste from the body
Purpose of digestive system
Breaks down food to give nutrients to the rest of the body
Purpose of ciculatory system
Pumping blood throughout the body
Carrying oxygen to your body
Purpose of respiratory system
Breathing in o2 and breathing out co2
Purpose of muscular system
Helps us move
Controls heart
Assists with digestion
What is the purpose of nervous system?
Sends messages to and from the brain
Let's us know of the pain in our body
Controls our senses
What is the largest organ of the body?
The skin
purpose of nerves
send messages to and from the brain
number of chambers in the heart
4
Provide an example of smooth, skeletal, and cardiac muscles
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What type of bone covers the skull?
Flat bones
Why do babies have more bones than adult humans?
Babies have bones that have not yet fused together. The bones in the spine and head will eventually fuse together. These bones are seen as one bone when the body is developed. As babies, the bones are each separate bones.
Give an example of three body systems working together.
While at the gym, your nervous system will send signals to your muscles. Your muscular system will take these signals and will start to move. As the muscles move, the bones of the skeletal system will help with the movement of the bones.
The muscle that controls breathing of lungs, also the problem when you get hiccups
Diaphgam
What is the main purpose of the immune system?
What is the first organ of the immune system?
Why do people that have their tonsils removed tend to get sick more?
1. The main purpose is to prevent/fight disease
2. The first organ of the immune system is the skin
3. The tonsils help fight disease in the body. Without them, viruses and bacteria can easily enter the throat.