Human Body Systems 1
This body system includes our bones and gives our body structure & support.
What is the Skeletal System?
The part of the body where food enters and digestion begins.
What is the mouth?
The organelle within our cells known as the "brain" that holds our DNA and controls the cell's activities.
What is the nucleus?
This organ pumps blood throughout our body and is the most important part of the Circulatory System.
What is the heart?
Name the 5 senses of the human body.
What are smell, taste, sight, touch, and hearing?
This body system carries oxygen-rich blood and nutrients throughout the body.
What is the Circulatory System?
Biceps and triceps are included in this body system.
What is the muscular system?
The body system that sends signals all over your body and tells it what to do.
What is the nervous system?
All team members must dance like a ballerina to receive points for this question.
Beautiful!
Name two organelles that are in plant cells but not in animal cells.
What are the cell wall and chloroplast?
The chemicals that are transmitted from one neuron to another.
What are neurotransmitters?
The body system responsible for bringing oxygen into the body.
What is the Respiratory System?
The small tubes that carry blood AWAY from the heart.
What are arteries?
This body system helps you break down food.
What is the Digestive System?
Name the six organ systems we learned about in class.
What is the Respiratory System, Digestive System, Circulatory System, Nervous System, Skeletal System, Muscular System?
The "branched" end of the neuron that receives the signals.
What is the dendrite?
Order these from smallest to largest: organ, organelle, organ system, tissue, cell.
The small bones in your spine that protect your spinal cord.
What are vertebrae?
Known as the "powerhouse," this organelle provides energy for the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
These finger-like projections allow more absorption of nutrients and are located where?
What are villi and small intestines?
What role do muscles play in digestion?
The large, hollow organs of the digestive tract contain a layer of muscle that enables their walls to move. The movement of organ walls can propel food and liquid through the system and mix the contents within each organ. Food moves from one organ to the next through muscle action called peristalsis.
What two body systems allow us to move and can not fully function without the other?
What are the muscular and skeletal systems?
Why does damage to the skeletal system have an effect on the other systems?
What is... nutrients needed to repair the skeletal system would be taken from other systems.
Which of the following body systems is responsible for producing heat?
What is the muscular system?