Body Systems 1
What attaches muscle to bone?
Tendon
Organ system that captures oxygen from the atmosphere...
Respiratory system
Organ system that gives your body structure and allows for movement
Skeletal system
Fluid that transports all of the substances that the body needs to sustain life.
Blood
Organ system that transports oxygen and food around your body
Circulatory/Cardiovascular system
What type of joint is in your finger?
Hinge
The main jobs of the Skeletal System are....
give our body shape, Protect, and help us move
The tube that is also called the windpipe.
Trachea
The basic building blocks of all living organisms....
cells
The place where two bones meet?
Joint
Consists of Skull, Ribs and Vertebrae...
Axial Skeleton
Join bones to other bones at joints.
Ligaments
What organs make up the circulatory system?
What are the two main categories of muscles?
voluntary & involuntary
These are the substances that cause your blood to clot
What causes muscles to grow?
Microscopic tears, muscle fibers grow and repair.
Where is cardiac muscle found?
heart
Join bones to muscles.
Tendons
These bones not only support your body but also protect your spinal cord
Vertebrae/ Spine
A waste gas that is transported in veins from the body to the lungs via the heart
carbon dioxide
These two systems work together to enable us to move
muscular and skeletal
(muscles and skeleton)
Many tiny air sacs of the lungs, which allow for rapid gaseous exchange.
Alveoli
The liquid portion of our blood. Transports nutrients and wastes, minerals, hormones, enzymes, and vitamins
Plasma
Where might you find a ball-and-socket joint?
Hip or shoulder
This organ of the circulatory system that works without us telling it to and without it we will die
Heart
Flow of the blood from the heart to the lungs and back to the heart.
Pulmonary Circulation
What are the three types of muscles?
cardiac, skeletal, and smooth
When alveoli disintegrate and lose their elasticity, making it difficult for air to pass out of the lungs... what disease is this?
Emphysema
Heart chamber that receives blood into the heart and drives it into a ventricle for pumping blood away from the heart
Atrium
Condition that results from a loss of calcium in the bone.
Osteoporosis