Muscular System
What type of muscle helps you move your arms and legs?
Skeletal muscle
This organ is the main part of the respiratory system where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged.
What are the lungs?
This is the largest organ of the body.
What is the skin?
This organ pumps blood through the body.
What is the heart?
Where does digestion begin?
The mouth
What is the name for the hard parts that make up your skeleton?
Bones
What is the main job of the reproductive system?
To make offspring (babies)
What is the purpose of the endocrine system?
Regulates long term growth, maintains homeostasis, helps control the body
What does the immune system protect you from?
Germs (like bacteria and viruses)
What is the job of the urinary system?
To remove waste from the body
What is the purpose of the muscular system?
Movement and regulate body temperature
What tube carries air from your throat to your lungs?
Trachea
What does the skin protect you from?
Germs, injury, and dehydration
These blood vessels carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
What organ stores and churns food with stomach acid?
The stomach
What connects two bones together at a joint?
Ligaments
What organ produces eggs in females?
Ovaries
Where do hormones go to get all around the body?
The blood stream
What are white blood cells for?
Fighting infection
What organ filters waste from the blood?
Kidneys
What muscle is responsible for pumping blood through the body?
The heart (a cardiac muscle)
What gases are exchanged in the respiratory system?
Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen
Where are tattoos inked on?
Dermis
These cells help carry oxygen in the blood.
What are red blood cells?
What structure/tube connects your mouth to your stomach?
Esophagus
What protects your brain?
Skull
What organ produces sperm in males?
Testes
What does the pancreas do?
Controls the sugar levels in blood
What is a vaccine?
A shot that helps your body build immunity
What is the tube that carries urine from the bladder out of the body?
Urethra
Name one involuntary muscle in your body.
Heart or muscles in the stomach/intestines
What is responsible for producing our voice?
Larynx
What system does the Integumentary system work with for sensation?
Nervous system
These vessels return blood back to the heart.
What are veins?
What organ absorbs most nutrients from food?
Small intestine
What is made inside the bone marrow?
Blood cells
What is the place where a baby grows before birth?
Uterus
What two types of feedback are there?
Positive and Negative feedback
What does the spleen do?
Filters blood
What stores urine before you go to the bathroom?
Bladder
What happens to your muscles when you don’t use them for a long time?
They weaken or shrink (atrophy)
How does oxygen from the lungs get to the rest of the body?
It travels in the blood through the circulatory system
What is the purpose of hair?
For warmth and to act as protection barrier to keep particles out, example: Our eyelashes, nose hairs, ear hairs.
This fluid carries nutrients, oxygen, and waste products throughout the body.
What is blood?
What organ produces bile to help digest fats?
Liver
How many bones are in the adult human body?
More than 200, exactly 206
What hormone causes many changes during puberty in boys?
Testosterone
What was a way that diabetes was once diagnosed?
Tasting urine (pee) for sweetness since the bloodstream has more sugar
What is a pathogen?
An agent that brings disease
What tube connects the kidney to the bladder?
Ureter