Skeletal System
This system provides support and protection for the body.
What is the skeletal system?
This system uses hormones to control body processes.
What is the endocrine system?
This body system removes wastes from the animal's body.
What is the urinary system?
This system protects the body and serves as the first line of defense.
What is the integumentary system?
Three types of muscle.
What is smooth, cardiac, and skeletal?
The main mineral stored in bones that makes them strong.
What is calcium?
Chemical messengers carried through the bloodstream.
What are hormones?
These organs filter waste from the blood and produce urine.
What are the kidneys?
The largest organ of the body.
What is the skin?
What is a contraction?
The place where two bones meet.
What is a joint?
What is the pituitary gland?
This liquid waste is produced by the kidneys and stored in the bladder.
What is urine?
This structure helps regulate body temperature by producing sweat.
What are sweat glands?
This connects muscles to bone.
What are tendons?
This connects bone to bone.
What is a ligament?
What is the thyroid gland?
One major job of the urinary system; another word for "balance in the body".
What is homeostasis?
These structures help animals stay warm by providing insulation.
What is hair or wool?
This happens to meat quality when an animal's muscles are used more through exercise.
What is tougher meat?
What is movement?
This is how hormones travel to their target organs.
What is the bloodstream?
This tube carries urine from the kidneys to the bladder.
What is the ureter?
What is regulating body temperature and preventing water loss?
These muscles work without conscious control, like the heart or intestines.
What are involuntary muscles?