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.
Where does the digestive system start?
The mouth
Nerves that allow the brain to control the muscles
Motor Nerves
This organ of the circulatory system is composed of completely involuntary muscle tissue and without it we will die
Heart
What makes up the Nervous System
Brain and Spine
The biggest muscle in your body is
Gluteus maximus
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.
Where gas exchange happens?
The respiratory system
This is the most important part of the Circulatory System?
What is the heart
Important to breathing, this organ is separated in two parts that resemble bags and are located behind the breast bone.
The Lungs
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
Neurons have how many different parts?
3 different parts
dendrites, an axon, and cell body
What is the difference between arteries and veins
Arteries carry blood away from heart to the rest of your body, and veins carry blood back to the lungs.
Bones are living organs. They are alive, growing and changing all the time. What do the produce
Blood Cells
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)
Located inside the bone, this part can store fat or create blood cells.
What is bone marrow?
The reason the left lung is smaller and only has two lobes
to make room for the heart
List the 3 main organs that make up the Respiratory System
nose, trachea (windpipe), lungs, bronchi & diaphragm
Food spends around 4 hours in this organ
stomach
Moveable and immovable
What is the difference between Motor Nerves and sensory nerves
Motor nerves allow the brain to control the muscles. Sensory nerves lets the brain know what going on in the outside world using your senses.
The flap that keeps food from entering the airway
Epiglottis
Also known as the voice box
Larynx
A waste gas that is transported in veins from the body to the lungs via the heart
carbon dioxide