Body Systems 1
The system that breaks down food for cells to use.....
Digestive system
Organ system that captures oxygen from the atmosphere...
Respiratory system
Organ system that gives your body structure.... (DO or DIE)
Skeletal system
Organ system that controls muscle movement and your senses
Nervous system
Organ system that transports oxygen and food around your body
Circulatory system
The four main jobs of the Skeletal System are....
Support, Protect, Move, Create blood
The sheet of muscle that operates the lungs
Diaphragm
The basic building blocks of all living organisms.... (5 letters)
cells
Organ that absorbs water from food and carries away waste
Large intestine
Organ that absorbs nutrients from food
Small intestine
A blood vessel that pumps blood away from the heart
Artery
Organ that contains acid and breaks food down
Stomach
A blood vessel that returns used blood to the heart
Vein
The pancreas is made up of tissues that work together to complete a task. What level of organization is the pancreas?
Organ
The organ that gets rid of toxins in your blood
Liver
These bones not only support your body but also protect your spinal cord
Vertebrae
A waste gas that is transported in veins from the body to the lungs via the heart
carbon dioxide
These two systems work together to enable us to move
muscular and skeletal
(muscles and skeleton)
Digestion begins here
The mouth
Uh oh...
You gain 100 pts.
Two important examples of involuntary muscle action keeping us alive are
Heart and lungs
These two pipes share an opening at the back of your throat...one pipe/tube takes food to the stomach, the other pipe/tube takes air to the lungs
Oesophagus and Trachea (Windpipe)
The strongest muscle in your body is not the biggest muscle in your body. Where would you find the strongest muscle in the body and where would you find the biggest muscle? (DOUBLE)
Your Jaw muscle (90kg of force)
Your buttocks (gluteus maximus)
As each heartbeat forces blood through your arteries, they bulge. You can feel this bulging on the inside of your wrist and its called your....
Pulse
The name given to the process in which a child becomes an adult.
Puberty