Nervous
Respiratory
Brain
Extra
Keeping Healthy
100
The purpose of the nervous system is __________.
What is to receive and carry messages all throughout the body.
100
The purpose of the respiratory system is to _________.
What is bring in oxygen to the body and release carbon dioxide that the body does not need.
100
The brain has _____ main parts.
What is three
100
Light enters the eye through this.
What is the pupil
100
To protect your skull you should wear this when you play sports or ride your bicycle.
What is a helmet
200
The nervous system that is made up of the network of nerves or neurons that spread out all over the body from the spinal cord.
What is the peripheral nervous system
200
People have two lungs and need carbon dioxide to stay alive. True or false?
What is false
200
The _________ is the largest part of the brain.
What is the cerebrum
200
Nerve cells that carry messages to other parts of the body are called _______.
What is neurons
200
Never take someone else's _________ that a doctor has written specifically for one person.
What is medicine/prescription
300
It carries information between the brain and the rest of your body. It stops growing when you are about 4 or 5 years old.
What is the spinal cord
300
Another name for the windpipe is ________. When you breath air comes in through the nose or mouth and travels down this tube.
What is the trachea
300
The _________ is the part of the brain that controls involuntary actions such as breathing and the heart beat.
What is the medulla
300
There are about 10,000 of these on the surface of your tongue.
What is taste buds
300
The _______eardrum is a thin sheet of tissue at the end of the ear canal that vibrates and can be damaged by loud noises.
What is the eardrum
400
These are carried and sent by nerves that can travel at over 250 miles per hour.
What is signals
400
A dome-shaped sheet of muscle located under the lungs and controls breathing in and out.
What is the diaphragm
400
The cerebellum is the part of the brain that controls _____________.
What is balance and coordination
400
The lungs are filled with hundreds of millions of tiny air sacs that allow oxygen to pass through them and into the blood.
What is alveoli
400
The ______ controls how much light enters the eye, and will cause the pupil to get smaller in bright light.
What is the iris
500
The brain is made up of these. One of these in the brain can connect to 25,000 others.
What is cells
500
When the diaphragm flattens out, air rushes in to fill up the lungs.
What is inhaling
500
The brain is the main part of this nervous system (along with the spinal cord).
What is the central nervous system
500
As the trachea goes into the chest area it divides into two branches which lead to the lungs.
What are the bronchial tubes
500
Some things we have talked about in class that can cause damage to your nervous and respiratory systems.
What is smoking, taking drugs, drinking alcohol
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