Digestive System
Nervous System
Excretory System Problems
Endocrine System
Potpourri
100
This is the breaking down of food into smaller particles by mashing and crushing food with the teeth.
What is mechanical digestion?
100
This is the main control center of your nervous system.
What is the brain?
100
This transports liquid waste from the kidneys to the bladder.
What is the urethra?
100
A group of cells or an organ that secretes a chemical substance.
What is a gland?
100
This is the breaking down of food particles through chemical reactions such as enzymes.
What is chemical digestion?
200
It is a muscular pouch that comes after the esophagus and leads to the small intestines.
What is the stomach?
200
This part of the brain involuntarily controls your heart rate.
What is the medulla?
200
These are specialized tubes found in the kidneys that filter blood.
What are nephrons?
200
A disease caused by inadequate insulin production by the pancreas.
What is Diabetes?
200
The female reproductive glands that control the development of secondary sex characteristics during adolescence.
What are the ovaries?
300
This is the part of saliva that helps to start chemical digestion.
What is the enzyme amylase?
300
This is the link between the brain and the peripheral nervous system.
What is the spinal cord?
300
This is a muscular sac that stores liquid waste from your kidneys.
What is the bladder?
300
The gland that contols your body's response to stress or emergencies by secreting adrenaline.
What is the adrenal gland?
300
The male reproductive glands that control the development of secondary sex characteristics during adolescence.
What are the testes?
400
This structure releases enzymes into the small intestine to aid in chemical digestion.
What is the pancreas?
400
These nervous cells protect and support neurons.
What are glial cells?
400
This makes your kidneys work harder to maintain water balance in the body?
What is severe dehydration?
400
A gland located in the throat that regulates the chemical reactions of nutrients in the cells.
What is the thyroid gland?
400
The body system that tells your excretory system to remove waste.
What is the nervous system?
500
A coiled, tubelike organ that is about 20 feet long where digested nutrients are absorbed.
What is the small intestine?
500
Their branched structure allows them to receive signals from many nerve cells.
What are dendrites?
500
This filters fluid from the blood into the nephron.
What is the glomerulus?
500
The gland that is located at the base of the brain and regulates the thyroid gland, adrenal glands, and kidneys.
What is the pituitary gland?
500
This causes your skin sweat as well as your heart rate and blood flow to the muscles to increase.
What is stress?
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