Immune System
This is the body's defence system that protects it from pathogens such as bacteria and viruses.
What is the immune system?
Blood vessels that carry blood back to your heart.
What are Veins?
A relationship where both organisms benefit from living or interacting with each other.
What is Mutualism?
These two bean-shaped organs filter waste from the blood.
What are Kidneys?
This type of tissue connects muscles to bones and allows muscles to move the skeleton.
What are tendons?
These cells help fight infections by identifying and destroying pathogens.
What are white blood cells?
Carries oxygenated from the heart to the rest of the body.
What is the Aorta?
Type of relationship between two organisms where one organism benefits, while the other is neither helped nor harmed.
What is Commensalism
This liquid waste is produced by the kidneys and stored in the bladder.
What is Urine?
These are the places where two or more bones meet, allowing movement of the skeleton.
What are Joints?
This type of pathogen can cause illnesses such as influenza and COVID-19.
What is a virus?
This chamber of the heart pumps oxygen-rich blood to the rest of the body.
What is Left Ventricle?
The relationship between two organisms where one organism benefits while the other is harmed.
What is parasitism?
These tubes carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder.
What are Ureters?
I am the main character in the movie Cars.
Who is lightning McQueen?
These proteins are produced by certain white blood cells and help recognise specific pathogens.
What are antibodies?
The phase of the heartbeat when the heart muscle contracts and pumps blood out of the chambers.
An example of ______ is remoras and sharks. Remoras attach themselves to sharks and other large marine animals. They get transportation and can feed on scraps left behind by their host, while the shark is generally unaffected.
What is Commensalism?
This nitrogen-containing waste product is produced when the body breaks down proteins and is removed from the blood by the kidneys.
What is Urea
This is the system of bones, muscles and connective tissues that supports the body, protects organs and allows movement.
What is the musculoskeletal system?
After an infection or vaccination, these specialised cells can remain in the body and help it respond more quickly if the same pathogen is encountered again.
What are memory cells?
The phase of the heartbeat when the heart muscle relaxes and the chambers fill with blood.
What is diastole?
A species of ant protects an acacia tree from insects that eat its leaves. In return, the tree provides the ants with food and shelter.
What is mutualism?
A person becomes severely dehydrated. How would you expect their kidneys to respond, and why?
A person would produce less urine and conserve more water to maintain homeostasis.
This is the process of keeping the body's internal conditions stable, even when things outside the body change.
What is Homeostasis?