Body Systems
This system includes the brain and spinal cord
What is the nervous system?
This system works together with the skeletal system, allowing the body to move.
What is the muscular system?
This is the gas that hemoglobin carries, it is necessary for us to stay alive.
What is oxygen?
Sensory signals such as pain, touch, smell, taste, and sound are processed in this organ.
What is the brain?
This organ absorbs nutrients from the liquidy digested food (chyme).
What is the small intestine?
This body system includes the heart and blood vessels.
What is the circulatory system?
Instead of an internal skeleton (endoskeleton) insects and have this.
What is an exoskeleton?
This gas is released from the lungs during respiration.
What is carbon dioxide?
These are the cells that the nervous system uses to send signals throughout the body.
What are neurons?
This organ has gastric acid which breaks down food.
What is the stomach?
This system provides support and protection for soft body organs, like the lungs.
What is the skeletal system?
This part of the skeletal system protects the brain.
What is the skull?
This molecule is the oxygen transport molecule.
What is hemoglobin?
This is balance in the body's systems: correct temperature, blood sugar, blood pressure, etc.
This is where digestion begins.
What is the mouth?
This system exchanges carbon dioxide for oxygen.
What is the respiratory system?
This mineral is stored in the bones for use by the body (multiple right answers)
What is magnesium, phosphorus, calcium?
(only one is needed)
This part of the respiratory system branches from the trachea and carries air into the lungs.
What are the bronchi?
This part of the nervous system includes the nerves, but not the spinal cord or brain.
What is peripheral nervous system?
This carries food from the mouth to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
"Celiac disease" is a disease that mainly effects this body system.
What is the digestive system?
This part of the bone produces red blood cells.
What is bone marrow?
This thin sheet-like muscle contracts and relaxes, allowing the lungs to fill and then push out air.
What is the diaphragm?
These are ways that the brain sends signals to maintain homeostasis.
What are hormones and signals through the nerves?
Put these steps of digestion in the correct order:
elimination, digestion, ingestion, absorption
What is
1. Ingestion
2. Digestion
3. Absorption
4. Elimination