Nervous System
This organ is the "control center" of your body and processes signals.
What is the brain?
This system uses hormones to control body functions.
What is the endocrine system?
This is the process of breaking down food.
What is digestion?
You breathe in this gas.
What is oxygen?
Another word for an electrical message that gets sent through the body.
What is a signal?
This long structure carries messages from the brain to the body.
What is the spinal cord?
These structures release hormones.
What are glands?
Breaking food into smaller pieces by chewing is called this.
What is mechanical digestion?
You breathe out this gas.
What is carbon dioxide?
The movement of air into the lungs.
What is inhalation?
These cells are bundles of neurons that carry messages to and from the brain.
What are nerves?
Chemical messengers in the body are called this.
What are hormones?
This type of digestion uses enzymes.
What is chemical digestion?
These tiny air sacs allow gas exchange to happen.
What are alveoli?
The movement of air out of the lungs.
What is exhalation?
These cells send electrical signals through your body.
What are neurons?
This "master gland" controls other glands in the body.
What is the pituitary gland?
This nutrient gives the body energy.
What are carbohydrates?
This tube carries air to the lungs.
What is the trachea?
Exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide is called this.
What is gas exchange?
When your body reacts to a signal, it is called this.
What is a response?
Explain how hormones affect the body.
Hormones travel through the bloodstream and control body processes like growth and mood.
Where does most digestion and absorption happen?
What is the small intestine?
This muscle helps you breathe in and out (hint, not the lungs).
What is the diaphragm?
Name one organ system and explain its entire function (to the degree of which you were taught).
Answers will be different.