Digestion
What is the primary organ responsible for digestion?
What is the stomach?
Name the three types of muscles in the human body.
What are skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscles?
What is the main organ of the excretory system?
What are the kidneys?
What is the name of the structure that protects the brain?
What is the skull?
What is the basic unit of the nervous system?
What is a neuron?
What substance helps break down food in the stomach?
What is gastric acid?
Which muscle is responsible for the heartbeat?
What is the cardiac muscle?
What waste product is primarily filtered out of the blood by the kidneys?
What is urea?
How many bones are in an adult human body?
What is 206?
What part of the brain is responsible for balance and coordination?
What is the cerebellum?
Name the process by which food is moved through the digestive system.
What is peristalsis?
What is the main function of the skeletal muscles?
What is to protect the organs?
What is the tube called that carries urine from the kidney to the bladder?
What is the ureter?
What type of joint allows for the greatest range of motion?
What is a ball-and-socket joint?
What part of the neuron do the messages enter?
What is the dendrite?
What are the small finger-like projections in the small intestine called, which help absorb nutrients?
What are villi?
How do muscles work in pairs?
What is one muscle contracts while the other relaxes?
What is the saclike organ that stores urine?
What is the bladder?
What is the term for the soft tissue found at the ends of all the bones?
What is cartilage?
What is the division of the nervous system that contains nerves that branch out?
What is the peripheral nervous system?
Describe the role of enzymes in digestion.
What are substances that speed up chemical reactions to break down food?
What connects a muscle to a bone?
What is a tendon?
How do people who don't have kidney function clean their blood?
What is dialysis?
Describe the role of calcium in the skeletal system.
What helps keep bones strong and healthy?
What kind of message stays in the spinal cord?
What is a reflex?