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 and allows for movement
Skeletal system
Organ system that controls movement of muscles, senses like sight and sound, and the body's reaction to any stimulus.
Nervous system
Organ system that transports oxygen and food around your body
Circulatory system
Give one example of physical digestion that takes place in the digestive system.
Chewing food in your mouth, pushing food through the esophagus, mixing food in your stomach
The two main jobs of the Skeletal System are....
Support, Protect, and Create blood cells
The sheet of muscle that expands and relaxes the lungs
Diaphragm
The basic building blocks of all living organisms.... (5 letters)
cells
Digestion type or types that take place in the mouth.
Physical and Chemical Digestion
This body system is a group of glands that produce hormones for our body to function. It is controlled by tiny little master glands inside the brain.
Endocrine System
What is the largest organ of the body?
Skin
What organs make up the circulatory system?
Organ that contains acid and breaks food down
Stomach
Blood is millions of cells that work together to create a.....
Tissue
The pancreas is a gland included in the _________ system, and it's job is to make a hormone called ____________.
Endocrine, Insulin
Three functions of the skeletal muscles of Muscular system
Three categories of muscle tissue
Smooth
Skeletal
Cardiac
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
Where would I find smooth muscle in the body?
On all organs besides the heart.
Explain a chemical change that takes place in the stomach.
Stomach acid breaks down food in the stomach.
This organ of the circulatory system is composed of completely involuntary muscle tissue and without it we will die
Heart
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
Esophagus and Trachea (Windpipe)
How is your nervous system similar to the nucleus in a cell?
Both are in charge and tell the body/cells what to do.
This is also called the "master gland" of the Endocrine System
Pituitary Gland
When I hear the words hormones, glands, and blood, what two systems are being described?
Circulatory and Endocrine
Explain how oxygen is converted to CO2 in the body.
Trachea to lungs to bronchi to bronchioles to alveoli where it is converted to carbon dioxide