The digestive system begins in the mouth because the saliva contains these, they help to speed up the chemical process of digestion.
What are enzymes?
These are the signal carries of the endocrine system that tell the cells what to do.
What are hormones?
Cartilage, bones, ligaments, tendons, make up this system.
What is the skeletal system?
Tiny air sacs found in the lungs where gas exchange occurs.
What are alveoli?
Eat, Absorb, Break it down, Release
What is the digestive system?
An organ of the digestive system where most mechanical breaking down of food happens.
What is the stomach?
Fight or flight hormones produced by the adrenal glands.
What is adrenaline?
The largest bone in the body.
What is the femur?
Photosynthesis is to plants as this is to humans.
What is cellular respiration?
Protection, insulation, stores energy
Integumentary System
A muscular tube that connects the mouth to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
A steroid hormone that stimulates development of male secondary sexual characteristics.
What is testosterone?
The smallest bones in the human body are found here.
What is the inner ear?
Inflammation of the bronchial tubes.
What is bronchitis?
Arteries, Capillaries, Veins
What is the circulatory system?
This organ in the digestive system is important for absorbing water and for forming feces, the remaining waste material.
What is large intestine?
Secreted by the pancreas, this hormone regulates blood sugars in the bloodstream.
What is insulin?
Largest bone of the arm, its not funny when you hit it.
What is the humerus?
Genetic disorder where the red blood cells are misshaped, thus making it hard for them to carry oxygen.
What is sickle cell anemia?
White blood cells, lymphocytes, antibodies
What is the immune system?
This enzyme produced by the liver, helps break down lipids in the digestive system.
What is bile?
It is the "master control gland" - it makes hormones that affect growth and the functions of other glands in the body.
What is the pituitary gland?
White blood cells are created here.
What is the bone marrow?
When cellular respiration is limited with oxygen, this chemical starts to form...I'm cramping just thinking of it.
What is lactic acid?
Ganglions, dendrites, neural receptors
What is the nervous system?