The heart pumps blood that carries oxygen and removes carbon dioxide throughout the body
What is the circulatory system?
100
1) Gives shape and support to your body
2) Protects your internal organs
3) Muscles attach to bone and help them move
4) Red blood cells are produced
5) Stores Calcium and Phosphorous
What are some of the functions of the skeletal system?
100
Where two bones meet
What is a joint?
100
To move your body (in cooperation with your skeletal system)
What is the function of the muscular system?
100
They advance knowledge in engineering, biology and medicine, and improves human health through technology
What is a biomedical engineer?
200
An organ within the nervous system that helps control voluntary and involuntary actions within your body
What is the brain?
200
Site of the production of blood cells and platelets
What is bone marrow?
200
Connects bone to bone
What is a ligament?
200
An action that is automatic.
Ex) your heart beating, blinking
What is an involuntary action?
200
They explore the unknown and use the sciences to improve our world
What is a scientist?
300
ex) Villi, Duodenum, Pancreas, Pharynx, Large and Small Intestine, Stomach
What is the digestive system?
300
Thin membrane that contains the blood vessels and nerve endings of a bone and provides attachment for muscles, tendons, and ligaments
What is periosteum?
300
At the end of the bones, this is something that absorbs shock and allows for joints to move smoothly. Also found in the nose and ears!
Where is cartilage found?
300
Line the walls of blood vessels, stomach, intestines, and other important organs and are known as your involuntary muscles
What is smooth muscle?
300
They use the technical application of maths and physics to solve sporting problems and improve athletic performance and safety.
What is a sports engineer?
400
In charge of inhaling oxygen and exhaling carbon dioxide
What is the respiratory system?
400
Found in joints or at the ends of bone.
What is cartilage?
400
This joint is found in your thumb.
What is a saddle joint?
400
Connects your bone to muscle
What is a tendon?
400
What did I pull on the chicken wing to make it move?
Tendon
500
Name two body systems that work together to accomplish one function and then explain how they work together!
Respiratory and Circulatory--> help to deliver oxygen to your body
Muscular and Skeletal--> help with movement
Nervous and Muscular--> Brain sends signals to muscle for it to contract/move
Many more!
500
What causes osteoporosis or bowl legs?
lack of calcium or vitamin D
500
A movable joint that allows for rotation around an axis
What is a pivot joint?
500
Muscles work in pairs; one contracts and the other relaxes and vice versa
What are flexors and extenders?
500
Why do I (Maria) have bad knees? What's the term for it?