Skeletal System
Responsible for storing minerals and fats, producing red blood cells, protecting internal tissues and organs.
What is the skeletal system?
These two body structures make up the central nervous system
What is the brain and the spinal cord?
This type of muscle can be found in the lining of organs.
What is smooth muscle?
To exchange gases
What is the main function of the respiratory system?
Responsible for digestion, absorption, and elimination
What are the main functions of the digestive system?
The process where the bone is formed, renewed, and repaired.
What is ossification?
Responsible for interpreting messages it receives and sending back a response.
What is the central nervous system?
What are smooth, skeletal, and cardiac
Removes excess water and salts
What does skin play in excretion?
Responsible for getting oxygen from air, removing carbon dioxide from the body, and fighting diseases by attacking infections.
What is the cardiovascular system?
Connective tissue that can act as a cushion between two bones.
What is cartilage?
Responsible for gathering information from both inside and outside your body and transmitting the information through the nerves back to the spinal cord and brain.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
The muscle the closes a joint
What is the flexor?
A muscle that separates the chest from the abdominal cavity.
What is the diaphragm?
A series of involuntary muscle contractions that move food through the digestive tract.
What is peristalsis?
A band of fibrous, slightly elastic connective tissue that attaches one bone to another.
What is cartilage?
When looking at the structure of a neuron, this part is responsible for carrying messages away from the cell body.
What is an axon?
The muscle that opens a joint
What is the extensor?
These are a few ways I can take care of my reproductive system.
What is taking a shower, changing sanitary products, wearing protective gear, practicing abstinence?
The process of chewing, which prepares food to be swallowed.
What is mastication?
Connects muscles to bones
What is the role of tendons in the muscular system?
Responsible for transmitting messages from the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body.
What are neurons?
Can be found in the major muscle groups, the lining of organs, and lining of the heart.
What is skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscle?
Through the lungs, skin, large intestine, and liver
What are the 4 ways our body excretes waste from the body?
The three main types of blood vessels
What are the arteries, capillaries, and veins?