System Basics
This body system is known for our thinking and feeling. That's using your head!
What is the Nervous System?
When we eat too much, this organ gets full. This organ helps us digest food for its nutrients while sending excess waste out of our bodies.
What is the Stomach?
The circulatory system works with this body system by producing red blood cells and minerals to transport them throughout the body.
What is the Skeletal System?
These organs maintain our CO2 levels while also conserving our oxygen usage.
What are the Lungs?
Babies are born with about 300 of these, but later fuse together to give us only 206 as we get older.
What are Bones?
This system is known for supporting the structure of our bodies and even acts as a protection for our internal organs. Make sure you drink your milk!
What is the Skeletal System?
Looks like you really do have a backbone! This organ carries electrical signals for everything we do. It's also known as the highway for our nervous system.
What is the Spinal Cord?
The respiratory system works with this body system to maintain homeostasis by controlling breathing rate.
What is the Nervous System?
These bean like organs control the water level in our bodies by producing urine and remove waste from the blood.
What are the Kidneys?
The average person produces about two pints of this liquid, aka "spit", every day. Talk about mouth watering!
What is Saliva?
This system beats to the rhythm or our bodies. The center of love, and life, this system circles throughout our bodies to provide necessary materials and nutrients to all cells and organs.
What is the Circulatory System?
This organ is the center of our thinking. It controls everything we do, feel, and how we function. That's using your noggin!
What is the Brain?
The digestive system works with this body system to pump nutrients throughout the body in one big circle.
What is the Circulatory System?
As the largest organ in our bodies, this organ helps regulate our temperature by producing sweat and dilating our blood vessels.
What is the Skin?
If you lined up every single one of these specialized "messaging cells" from your body in a row, they would stretch for about 600 miles.
What are Neurons?
This system processes our meals to give our bodies the necessary energy, growth, and eliminates the waste afterwards.
What is the Digestive System?
Deep breath in, deep breath out. These twin organs exchange the necessary gases we need to breathe.
What are the Lungs?
The nervous system work with this body system to contract and move, helping us with the strength we need for daily activities.
What is the Muscular System?
This gland regulates our internal body temperature, and was also Thrax's final target in Osmosis Jones.
What is the Hypothalamus Gland?
By regulating our temperature, oxygen usage, blood flow, and absorption of nutrients, this process helps us keep our balance.
What is Homeostasis?
This system is known for its help with movement and our posture. Time to get beefy!
What is the Muscular System?
Known best for its relation to love, this organ pumps blood throughout our bodies, something that we could not live without.
What is the Heart?
The circulatory system works with this body system to give our cells and organs the necessary gases we need to live and breathe.
What is the Respiratory System?
Located below the lungs, this organ controls our blood glucose levels by releasing insulin when high or glucagon when low.
What is the Pancreas?
These three types of muscles are found in many different parts of our bodies including the heart, attached to our bones, and make up many other vital organs.
What are the Cardiac, Skeletal, and Smooth Muscles?