Bone and Muscle Power
This hard framework inside your body is made up of 206 bones that hold you up and give you shape.
Skeleton or skeletal system
This body system that turns healthy food you eat into fuel and energy for your body is called the
digestive system
This organ in your chest is a hard-working muscle about the size of your fist that pumps blood through your body
heart
These very tiny living things are all around us and can only be seen with a microscope; some help us, but others can make us sick
germs
Name Dr. Welbody's five keys to health: eat well, exercise, sleep, keep clean, and this type of doctor visit
checkups
This helmet-shaped bone in your head protects your brain
skull
This is the long tube connecting your mouth to your stomach that squeezes food down like toothpaste from a tube
esophagus
Located in your head, this organ is known as the body's "control center" because it controls your thoughts, movements, memory, and feelings
brain
Washing your hands with these two things washes away germs and keeps you healthy
soap and water
On the MyPlate diagram, this food group takes up the largest section, meaning you should eat more of these than any other food group
vegetables
These places in your body - like your knees, elbows, and hips - are where bones meet so you can bend and move
joints
These thin fibers act like wires, carrying messages back and forth between your brain and all parts of your body
nerves
These special shots help healthy people build immunities to stay safe from diseases like chicken pox or measles
vaccines
Finish this famous proverb: "An apple a day keeps the _____ away"
doctor
These strong cords attach your muscles to your bones so they can work together to help you move.
tendons
2 days
You can feel this beat under the skin on your wrist every time your heart squeezes blood through your blood vessels
pulse
This brave doctor discovered the smallpox vaccine after observing milkmaids with cowpox
Edward Jenner
On the food pyramid, this skinny yellow stripe represents foods like butter and oil that you should eat only a very small amount of
oils and fats
Muscles like your biceps that you choose to move are voluntary, but your heart and digestive muscles move automatically on their own and are called?
involuntary muscles
Put these parts of the digestive path in order from start to finish: stomach, mouth, esophagus, small intestine, large intestine
mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine
Name the 5 senses that send messages to your brain through your body's sense receptors
sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell
This French scientist created a rabies vaccine and invented a process that heats liquids like milk to high temperatures to kill harmful germs
Louis Pasteur
The rhyming pediatrician who guides us through Unit 1 and teaches us all about our body systems is named this
Dr. Wellbody