Organization of the Human Body
This is the most basic unit of life.
What is a cell?
This organ system controls the flow and regulation of blood between the heart and the lungs.
What is the cardiopulmonary system?
These types of cells are responsible for immune responses.
What are white blood cells?
These organs maintain a healthy balance of water, salts, and minerals.
What are kidneys?
This organ means "pulmonary" in the cardiopulmonary system.
What is lungs?
This insulates, stores energy, and reduces water loss.
What is fat?
This type of tissue transmits electrical signals through the entire body.
What is nervous?
This organ system's functions are storage, support, protection, and movement.
What is the skeletal system?
Organs in the nervous system have these types of cells.
What are neurons?
What is the nervous system?
These are produced in the marrow of long bones like the femur.
What are blood cells?
This organ system protects the entire body against viruses, bacteria, toxins, and fungi.
What is the immune system?
We are able to voluntarily control when these muscles contract and relax.
What is skeletal?
This organ is where chemical digestion is completed.
What is the small intestine?
This organ absorbs water and salts.
This is a group of similar cells performing a specific function.
What is tissue?
This is the involuntary muscle that controls our heartbeat.
What is cardiac?
When this type of tissue contracts and relaxes, it produces movement.
What is muscle?
This organ recycles red blood cells.
What is the spleen?
This organ's function include mechanical digestion and acidification.
What is the stomach?
Examples of this type of joint are shoulder and hip.
What is ball and socket?
This is the goal of all body systems working together to keep the human alive, by balancing a variety of factors to maintain a stable internal environment
What is the homeostasis?
This is the involuntary muscle that lines the digestive system and blood vessels.
What is smooth?
These protect us from both food AND air pathogens.
What are the adenoids/tonsils?
One main function of this organ is to regulate blood glucose with insulin and glucagon.
What is the pancreas?