Human Body Systems 1
A body system that produces hormones and helps us regulate things like mood, growth, and metabolism.
What is the endocrine system?
The part of the body where food enters and digestion begins.
What is the mouth?
The organelle within our cells that holds our DNA.
What is the nucleus?
This organ filters blood, supports detoxification, and produces bile.
What is the liver?
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 / Cardiovascular 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?
The three characteristic structures of human hair.
What is the cuticle, cortex, and medulla?
Name two organelles that are in plant cells but not in animal cells.
What are the cell wall and chloroplast?
The long structure of a neuron that carries an action potential (electrical signal) away from the cell body.
What is an axon?
The body system responsible for bringing oxygen into the body.
What is the Respiratory System?
The organelles that create proteins.
What are ribosomes?
This body system helps you break down food.
What is the Digestive System?
Name at least two of the four types of tissues.
What are muscular, nervous, connective, and epithelial tissue?
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.
This body system helps fight infection to keep your body healthy.
What is the lymphatic (immune) system?
Known as the "powerhouse," this organelle provides energy for the cell.
What is the mitochondria?
The chemicals that are transmitted from one neuron to another.
What are neurotransmitters?
Name the thin-walled, smallest diameter vessels, that oxygen and carbon dioxide diffuse through.
What are capillaries?
The vessels that carry blood TO the heart.
What are veins?
The vessels that carry blood AWAY from the heart.
What are arteries?
The small bones in your spine that protect your spinal cord.
What are vertebrae?