Functions
How does skin help prevent pathogens from entering your body?
By acting as a barrier.
Your brain is the most important organ in your body. This body system protects your brain.
What is skeletal system?
Two body systems that work with the muscular system to provide movement.
What is the nervous and skeletal system?
True or False: Babies are born with 300 bones. Adults have 206.
What is true?
The role of the excretory system is to rid the body of toxic waste products. Which of these body systems also plays a direct role in removing waste products from the body?
Which body system is responsible for movement?
Muscular system.
The body's biggest organ.
What is skin?
Your skeleton is there for support, protection, and movement but you would not be able to move without the help of your_______,
What is muscular system?
True or False: our thumbs have their own pulse.
What is true?
Which organ systems work together to keep your body cool by perspiring?
Nervous and circulatory systems.
When we get sick with a cold or flu, the ____ system responds and tries to defend our body against the virus.
What is the immune system?
Your stomach is the main organ in this system.
Digestive
Food is moved through your digestive system with the help of this body system.
What is the muscular system?
True or False: The smallest bone in your body is your pinky toe.
Asthma narrows airways to the lungs and in the lungs by contraction of muscles around the air passages, swelling of the airway lining, and build-up of excessive mucus. Because of this, asthma makes both the ______ and ______ systems work harder to deliver oxygen to the cells throughout the body.
Respiratory and circulatory.
The function of this body system is to coordinate the body's responses to changes in it's environment.
What is nervous system?
Your white blood cells are part of this system.
Immune system.
What is respiratory and circulatory?
True or False: It takes seven years for gum to digest in your body.
What is false! It digests normally!
Jose and Sarah are running in the cross country meet. Their skeletal and muscular systems work to move them through the course. As they run, they breathe faster and harder and their heart rate increases. What does this illustrate?
The body systems work together!
The function of this system is to circulate blood to all the cells in your body.
What is circulatory system?
True or False: You only breathe in and out one nostril at time.
True!
What is the correct order for the organization of life from simplest to most complex?
Cells-tissues-organs-organ systems-organism
In order to cool the body down, the body will react to maintain homeostasis. What is one way that the body reacts?
Blood vessels dilate and blood is directed to the superficial layers of the skin.
What other system works with the digestive system to get needed nutrients to our cells?
Circulatory system.