NERVOUS SYSTEM
What is the job of the nervous system?
Is to send and receive messages and control all thoughts and movements?
What part of the brain that controls balance and muscular coordination.
cerebellum
What is the job/s of the skeletal system
a. to support the body? b. to protect internal organs? c. to allow the body to move? d. to produce red blood cells in the bone marrow? e. to store phosphorous and calcium for the body to use?
The job of the muscular system
What is to provide movement for the body?
Where you find phalanges?
in fingers and in the toes
What division of Nervous System that contains the brain, spinal cord?
Central nervous system?
What part of the brain that controls breathing, heartbeat, and other vital(important) body processes.
Medulla
the largest bone in the body
What is femur?
Type of muscles that work in pairs and pull in opposite directions.
Antagonistic muscles
The job of the ribcage
to protect internal organs, especially the heart and lungs?
Another name (Scientific name) for the skull?
cranium
Part of the brain controls thought, voluntary movement, memory, and learning.
cerebrum
another name (scientific name) for the thigh bone
What is femur?
When muscles tighten to do a job, it is called ____
contract
The muscle that pumps blood through your body
heart/ cardiac muscles
The 12 cranial nerves and the 31 spinal nerves make up this part of the nervous system.
peripheral nervous system
This part of the nervous system carries messages from the brain and spinal cord to all other parts of the body.
Peripheral nervous system
the scientific name for the kneecap
What is patella?
Muscles that are attached to the skeleton and that we can control are ____________
skeletal or voluntary muscles?
How long it takes for 1 red blood cell to make a complete circle through the body
one minute
Part of CNS that relays(carries) impulses between the brain and other parts of the body.
spinal cord
Transmit information in the form of an electrical impulse.
Neuron
Another name (scientific name) for the hipbone
pelvis
Muscles that are found in the walls of blood vessels and internal organs - that we cannot control are ___.
smooth or involuntary muscles?
Which takes less muscles - making it easier to do, smiling or frowning?
smiling- takes 20 muscles to smile and over 40 to frown!! (The face has over 60 muscles in it!!)