Vocab
They type of Muscles you have NO CONTROL over
What are Involuntary Muscles?
Types of muscles you have total control over.
What are Voluntary Muscles.
Which part of the Nervous System RECEIVES SIGNALS from other Neurons.
What is a dendrite.
The 2nd part of the Digestive system-It connects the mouth to the stomach.
What is the esophagus.
What do skeletal muscles do?
They move the arms and legs.
Which part of the Brain controls our heart rate, blood pressure, and breathing?
What is the Brain Stem?
What is special about Cardiac Muscles?
They never get tired.
The sack that holds the urine created by the kidneys before it is dumped out the body.
What is the Bladder?
The main control center of the body.
What is the brain?
Which part of a Neuron sends the messages to the next Neuron.
What is an AXON?
The first part of the Digestive System. It breaks food down into small chunks to be sent down the esophagus.
What is the mouth?
What do bones create that is important for us?
What are red and white blood cells?
Which part of the brain controls our Memory, thinking, and Reasoning?
What is the Cerebrum?
These muscles are located on the arms and legs of each human being, and they "pull" instead of "push"
Another name for Nerve Cell.
What is a Neuron?
The entire system that tells what is going on around you.
What is the Nervous System.
What is the COMMAND CENTER of a Neuron?
What is a Cell Body?
The third organ in the digestive system-where food begins to break down after you swallow it.
What is the stomach.
What type of muscles "squeeze" instead of pulling?
What are smooth muscles?
Which part of the brain is in charge of keeping balance and our basic movements?
What is the Cerebellum?
What kind of muscles are located in everybody's heart?
What are Cardiac Muscles?
Tube Shaped Organs through which nutrients and water from food are absorbed.
What are intestines.
or What are small and large intestines.
The organs that clean out our blood and creates our urine?
What are the kidneys?
Sight, taste, touch, hearing, and smelling.
What does the stomach do? Name two things.
2. Gets the food ready for the small and large intestines.
Name two types of muscles that are INVOLUNTARY.
What are Cardiac and Smooth muscles?
The fifth part of the Digestive system: it sucks the last bit of water out of food, and leaves the rest to be sent out of the body as smelly "waste"
What are the Large Intestine?
What are Nephrons in the Kidneys.
They are the small machines (about a million in each kidney) that filter the blood and clean the waste out of it.
Which part of the Neurons speeds up the signals by at least a hundred times?
What is the Myelin Sheath.
Which part anchors the muscle to the bones?
What are the tendons?
Which two parts make up the central nervous system?
What is the brain and spinal cord?
The fourth part of the digestive system. It takes the food from the stomach and sucks all the nutrients and most of the water out of it.
What is the Small Intestine.
Where are smooth muscles located? Name two places!
What are the blood vessels and digestive system.
Give two examples of INVOLUNTARY ACTIONS that the nervous system produces.
Examples include...
1. Eye blinking when something touches our eyes.
2. Our Reflexes.
3. Blood Pressure, Heart Rate.
4. Goosebumps.
5. Our body shaking when it's cold.
Fun fact-How long are the small intestines?
6 meters.