What is the job of the muscle system?
Allowing for movement when attached to bones, internal function of organs like the heart, stomach, and lungs.
What are the 3 jobs/roles of the skeletal System?
Structure/Support, Movement, Protection
What is the Digestive system?
Breaks down food we eat and extracts usable nutrients.
What is the job of the respiratory system?
Organ system that captures oxygen from the atmosphere for our cells to use.
What is the job of the circulatory system?
Organ system that transports oxygen and nutrients from our food, around our bodies.
What is the job of the nervous system?
Organ system that control body processes such as movement of muscles, senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, hearing), reaction to stimuli, heart pumping, lungs working, etc.
Muscles that you have control over are called what kind of muscle?
BONUS POINTS: what is an example of this kind of muscle?
Voluntary muscle
Skeletal Muscles
What kind of joint allows bones to moveand rotate in nearly all directions?
a. Hinge joint
b. Ball and socket
c. Pivot joint
b. Ball and socket
Begins the process of mechanical breakdown in the digestive system
What is the mouth?
Air enters the body through what part?
Mouth/nose
The type of blood vessel that carries oxygen poor blood back toward the heart.
What are Veins?
The main organ of the nervous system.
What is the brain?
True or false: Muscles work in pairs.
True
What kind of joint allows bones to move back and forth in one direction?
a. Hinge joint
b. Ball and socket
c. Pivot joint
a. Hinge Joint
The tube that connects the mouth to the stomach
esophagus
the large tube that carries oxygen and CO2 between your lungs and mouth.
What is your Trachea?
The smallest blood vessels that bridge the gap between the other two types of blood vessels.
Capillaries.
A bundle of nerves that go to and from the brain.
What is the spinal cord?
What are some examples of involuntary muscles?
Heart, lungs, stomach, intestines
What kind of joint allows for rotation around the length of the bone (neck, lower arm to elbow)
a. Hinge joint
b. Ball and socket
c. Pivot joint
c. Pivot
The breaking down of food into smaller molecules by enzymes.
Chemical digestion
The _________ is a muscle beneath your lungs that helps move air into and out of the body.
a.) Heart
b.) bicep
c.) diaphragm
d.) lungs
c.) diaphragm
Blood vessel that takes oxygen rich blood away from the heart
Arteries
Brain and spinal cord
Explain how the Muscular system and the skeletal system work together.
The muscles connect to the bones to help move them. They also help to maintain structure and support of the bones, helping with posture and sitting up straight.
What function of the skeletal system will help the lungs from getting damaged if you fall?
Protection
list the organs that food travels through in order in the digestive system. ( only organs that food actually travels through.
mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine.
Within the lungs, gas exchange takes place between the capillaries and the _______________.
Alveoli
What is the main organ of the circulatory system?
EXTRA CREDIT: How many chambers are in this organ?
The Heart!
4
What is the peripheral nervous system made up of?
The nerves!