Vocab
The building blocks of all life.
What are cells?
Structures that are made up of different types of tissues that work together.
What are organs?
the systems that through combined effort transport energy to your cells.
What are the digestive and circulatory systems?
oxygen enters your body and carbon dioxide is released
What is the respiratory system?
The systems that works closely wth the nervous system to help regualte the body's growth and developement, mood, tissue function, metabolism and reproductive processes.
What is the endocrine system?
Maintained through negative feedback mechanisms, which help return the body to a normal state.
What is Homeostasis?
A group of organs that work together to perform a certain job.
What are organ systems?
The systems that work together to remove waste products. (there are three)
What are circulatory, respiratory, and excretory systems?
the millions of tiny units that the kidney is made up of.
What are nephorns?
The system that gives the body its shape and helps it move. It is made up of muscles tat epand and contract.
What is muscular system?
Inorganic substance that is involved in many of the body's chemical reactions
What are minerals?
The breakdown of the food that you eat into smaller and simpler molecules that can be used by the cells in your body.
What is digestion?
This plays a role in nearly every body functions.
What is water?
A mechanism in which the body changes an internal condition back to its normal state.
What is a negative feedback mechanism?
The systme including the thymus. spleen, lymph nodes, white blood cells and anitbodies that protects the body form diease- causeing substances.
What is the Immune system?
Living things are made up of
What are organic compounds?
a protein that helps the body carry out chemical reactions.
What are enzymes?
Composed of organic and inorganic chemicals.
What are cells?
the mechanism that does not harm the body but also doesn't allow it to restore the body to the normal state.
What is the positive feedback mechanism?
The system of blood, blood vessels and the heart that carries blood throughout the body.
What is the circulartory system?
Groups of similar cells that do the same sort of work.
What are tissues?
Tiny finger-like projections.
What are villi?
What are carbohydrates, lipids, nucleic acids, and proteins?
The ends of the narrowest tubes are custers of tiny, thin-willed sacs.
What are alveoil?
The system that provides structure and suport to the body, stores minerals, creates bllod cells, protects your internal organs, and helps the body move.