Digestive
Name the path of food once it has been chewed using the 4 main organs.
Esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine.
You breath in ____ & Breath out _____.
Oxygen & Carbon Dioxide
The nose is part of what Body system?
Respiratory System
Blood is primarily moved around the body by
The beating heart
High blood pressure can cause two major things…
The heart to enlarge & weaken and arteries to become less flexible
In order for food to be absorbed into your body what type of breakdown must occur?
Mechanical and Chemical breakdown
The main function of the respiratory system
Absorb Oxygen & remove Carbon Dioxide
Hepatitis is a disease of what organ?
Liver
You are walking and then decide to start running. After a few minutes, what happened to your pulse?
It Increased
Major cause of death in the U.S. today and name 3 voluntary risks….
Heart Disease; smoking, frequency of exercise, weight
What is the first thing that is most responsible for Mechanical Breakdown?
Teeth; chewing
What are the three types of blood vessels?
Veins, Arteries, Capillaries
The shape of an organ is determined by
Its function
What is your pulse?
The number of times your heart beats in a period of time.
A good model of human heart would be a
double pump
What is transported by blood, needed by every cell, and absorbed by the small intestine?
Nutrients
An infection of this system would cause you to do what?
Cough
Describe how the human body system is organized… from largest to smallest structure….
(cells, organs, organ systems, tissues)
Organ systems, organs, tissues, cells
Blood leaving the heart may go to…
Arteries in the heart, the lungs, other parts of body
A human heart normally beats how many times per minute (range)
(60 – 80) BPM
Chemical Breakdown occurs mostly in what two organs?
Stomach and Small Intestines
Oxygen Passes from the blood into organs through the walls of
capillaries in the alveoli
Mechanical and Chemical breakdown are a part of what system? And which helps out the other one?
Digestive System;
Mechanical breakdown helps out chemical breakdown
An important part of this system is to
Transport oxygen & nutrients to other parts of the body
The human heart is what two things…..
&
What in the heart prevents blood from backflowing?
A Muscle and an Organ
&
Valves