Skeletal System
What are bones, joints, and various connective tissue.
The nervous system uses the brain to
What are gathers, processes, and responds to information received by the brain?
The circulatory system is also called the
The primary purpose of your digestive system.
What is to break down foods into substances that your cells can use?
A group of cells, or an organ, that secretes a chemical substance.
What is a gland?
Causes the immune system to produce antibodies for certain diseases.
What is a vaccine?
The muscular system allows people to
What is move?
Name this element O2.
What is oxygen?
Pain in the stomach area might be caused by
What is an ulcer?
The male and female reproductive systems produces
What is sperm and eggs?
The number of bones in a human body are...
What is 200 plus?
The nervous system is made of
What is neurons?
The circulatory system includes the following tissues
What are the heart, blood vessels and blood?
There are ___ steps in the digestion process.
What are 4 steps?
The number of major glands that make up the endocrine system.
What is 7?
Their job is to fight germ-causing diseases and pathogens.
What are white blood cells?
There are over ______ muscles in the human body.
What is 600?
We breath in ______ and breath out ________.
What is oxygen and carbon dioxide?
The group of organs that work together to remove wastes.
What is the excretory system?
The female reproductive system has three main functions.
What are to produce & store eggs, fertilize eggs, and give birth to a baby?
Using blood cells to create this middle part of a bone
What is marrow?
Name the 2 parts of the nervous system
What are the central and peripheral?
Name the types of blood vessels..
What are arteries, veins, and capillaries?
The liver is a digestive gland that secretes a substance called...
What is bile?
A hormone that allows your body to respond to stress.
What is adrenaline?
The 2 main responses of the immune system.
What are the non-specific and specific?
Name the 3 types of muscles found in the human body.
What is cardiac, smooth, and skeletal?
A triangle-shaped area found in the throat.
What is the larynx?
What are the kidneys, bladder, and colon?
Doctors recommend that both men and women should perform
What are regular check-ups of the testes and breasts for lumps?
If a ligament connects bones, name the tissue that protects the bones.
What is cartilage?
The peripheral nervous system has these 2 parts, which part deals with the body movements that you do not control?
What is the autonomic system?
The liquid part of blood...
What is plasma?
Name the 4 steps of digestion.
What is ingestion, digestion, absorption, and excretion?
Name the 7 major glands that make up the endocrine system.
What are the pituitary gland, thyroid, parathyroid, adrenals, hypothalamus, thymus, and the pancreas?
They are called B and T cells.
What are lymphocytes?
This occurs when a bone is pushed out of its joint
What is a dislocation?
This tissue covers the trachea when you eat and uncovers it when you breathe.
What is the epiglottis?
The inflammation of the appendix.
What is appendicitis?
When an internal organ pushes against or through a surrounding muscle.
What is a hernia?
Name the connective tissue that connects bones to muscles.
What are tendons?
The nervous system can become injured or be affected by diseases or disorders. Name 5 diseases that affect people's bodies.
What are multiple sclerosis, cerebral palsy, alzheimer's, parkinson's, and epilepsy?
A condition in which arteries harden and reduce blood flow.
What is arteriosclerosis?
A gland that blends enzymes that breaks down proteins, carbohydrates, and fats.
What is the pancreas?
An underactive thyroid gland is also known as
What is hypothyroidism?
Lymphocytes react to substances called ________. The immune system responds by producing proteins.
What are antigens and antibodies?
This is a curving of the backbone.
What is scoliosis?
A large, dome-shaped muscle below the lungs that expands and compresses the lungs, enabling breathing.
What is the diaphragm?
Your digestive system contains between 10 and 100 trillion bacteria.
What is true or false?
Menstruation usually lasts from ___ days and happens about every ___ days.
What is 5-7 days and 28 days?