Body Systems 1
The system that breaks down food for cells to use.....
Digestive system
Body system that captures oxygen from the atmosphere...
Respiratory system
The body system that makes blood cells is
Skeletal System
Your body's delivery system is
It delivers oxygen and nutients to every part of your body and picks up waste products on the return trip.
What organ selectively filters your blood and puts the waste products into your urine?
kidneys
This system contains the bladder
excretory system
This organ of the circulatory system is composed of completely involuntary muscle tissue and without it we will die
Heart
What are the small air sacks inside the lungs where gas exchange occurs called?
Alveoli
The basic building blocks of all living organisms.... (5 letters)
cells
Organ that absorbs water and nutrients from food and carries away waste
Intestines
Small intestine absorb nutrients from the digested food and large intestine (colon) socks up water and rids solid waste.
A waste gas that is transported in veins from the body to the lungs via the heart
carbon dioxide
These are the main organ of your nervous system.
what are the brain, nerves, and spinal cord?
What is the function of villi?
Increases the surface area of the small intestine for absorption of food molecules to occur across.
DAILY DOUBLE
What is this muscular bag that contains acid ( digestive juices) and breaks food down into a liquid called chyme. It can hold about a litre of food for adults and a bit less for a child.
Stomach
Why do babies have more bones than adults?
A baby's bones grow and then fuse (stick) together before adulthood.
DAILY DOUBLE
Differences between arteries and veins
( Why are arteries coloued red and the veins blue? )
Arteries carry oxygen rich blood from heart to the rest of your body, and veins carry blood less oxygen back to the lungs.
Urine travels from the kidneys to the bladder in this tube
Ureters
DAILY DOUBLE
Jimmy eats a well balanced diet but still has a vitamin deficiency. What system is defective in his body?
Digestive system, nutrients are not properly being absorbed
List the 5 main organs that make up the Digestive System.
mouth, esophagus, stomach,small intestine, large intestine
The four main jobs of the Skeletal System are....
Support, Protect, Move, Create blood cells
These two systems work together to enable us to move
muscular and skeletal
(muscles and skeleton)
what does the endocrine system do?
glands send hormones to regulate body processes and maintain homeostasis
Alex is eating lunch with his friends and then one of them sneezes. What two body systems are going to be most affected as he breathes in the germs?
respiratory and immune
List the main organs that air encounters as it enters through your mouth or nose.
nose, throat ( larynx), trachea, bronchial tubes, lungs
DAILY DOUBLE
This is where most of the nutrients from food are absorbed in the digestive system
Small intestine
The sternum is located where on the skeleton?
middle of the chest
DAILY DOUBLE
what are the 3 types of muscles
cardiac, skeletal, smooth
they allow the gas exchange of O2 for our body and get rid of CO2 waste
These two systems work together to circulate blood and oxygen from gas exchange through the body.
circulatory and respiratory
List the organizational levels of life from simplest to most complex
Cells
tissues
organs
organ systems
organism