Skeletal System
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muscles and ligaments that allow for movement
What is the muscular system?
Mechanical and Chemical
What are the two kinds of ways that food is broken down?
The trachea, pharynx, and diaphragm
What are parts of the respiratory system?
Transports nutrients, gases, wastes, and other substances through the body.
What is the circulatory system?
Protection, Production, and Storage
What are the jobs of the skeletal system?
muscles attached to bone
The teeth chewing food
What is an example of the physical break down of food?
The system responsible for breathing
What is the respiratory system?
These are tiny tubes that carry blood.
What are vessels?
What do bones produce?
muscles you can control
What are voluntary muscles?
connects mouth to stomach
What is the esophagus?
CO2
What do lungs remove from the air?
Travels 3 feet per second and through the entire body in 1 minute!
What is blood?
Hard outer covering that protects and supports certain animals
What is an exoskeleton?
muscle you cannot control
What is involuntary muscle? (example: cardiac)
contains villi
What is the small intestine?
The system that removes waste.
What is the excretory system?
These carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
Fat and calcium
What is stored in the bones?
a smooth muscle
What kind of muscle is the stomach muscle?
Where water is removed and food becomes solid waste
What is the large intestine?
Excess salt and water
What does the skin remove?
These transport CO2 blood to the heart and O2 blood to the body.
What are veins?