Body Systems 1
The system that breaks down food for cells to use.....
What is the Digestive system?
Organ system that captures oxygen from the atmosphere...
What is the Respiratory system?
Organ system that gives your body structure and allows for movement
What is the Skeletal system?
Organ system that controls movement of muscles, senses like sight and sound, and the body's reaction to any stimulus.
What is the Nervous system?
Organ system that transports oxygen and food around your body
What is the Circulatory system?
The place where two bones meet?
What is a joint?
The four main jobs of the Skeletal System are....
What is Support, Protect, Move, Create blood cells
The sheet of muscle that operates the lungs
What is the Diaphragm?
The basic building blocks of all living organisms.... (5 letters)
What are cells?
Organ that absorbs water and nutrients from food and carries away waste
What are the Intestines?
Pushes food from the mouth to the stomach
What is the esophagus?
The main organ of the nervous system.
What is the brain?
Which organs make up the circulatory system?
What are the Heart and blood vessels?
Organ that contains acid and breaks food down
What is the Stomach?
A group of like tissues make up.....
What is An Organ?
Begins the process of mechanical breakdown in the digestive system
What is the mouth?
Two functions of the skeletal muscles of Muscular system
What are Move bones, protect organs?
Three categories of muscle tissue
What are Smooth, Skeletal, Cardiac?
These bones not only support your body but also protect your spinal cord
What are Vertebrae?
A waste gas that is transported in veins from the body to the lungs via the heart
What is carbon dioxide?
These two systems work together to enable us to move
What are the muscular and skeletal systems?
(muscles and skeleton)
Blood is carried back to your heart in little tubes called what?
What are veins?
Types of involuntary muscles (2)
What are smooth and cardiac muscles?
List the structures that make up the Respiratory System (5)
What are the Nose, Mouth, Trachea, Lungs & Diaphragm
This organ of the circulatory system is composed of completely involuntary muscle tissue and without it we will die
What is the Heart?
These two pipes share an opening at the back of your throat...one pipe/tube takes food to the stomach, the other pipe/tube takes air to the lungs
What are the Esophagus and Trachea (Windpipe)?
This is the only moving bone in your skull
What is the Lower Jaw bone (MANDIBLE)?
The organ that absorbs most of the nutrients using small fingerlike structures called villi.
What are the small intestines?
A bundle of nerves that go to and from the brain.
What is the spinal cord?
A muscle is made up of thousands of elastic what bundled together?
Fibers