Systems and Subsystems
The Lungs and the Trachea are examples of these smaller, specialized units within the Respiratory System
What are Subsystems?
The major process of converting food into usable power to keep cells active.
What is Energy (or Metabolism)?
The primary function of this system is to control muscular movement with electrical signals.
What is the Nervous System?
The two main waste products removed by the Excretory System.
What are Urea and excess salts/water?
The main character of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse who gets bitten by a radioactive spider in Brooklyn.
Who is Miles Morales?
A group of related parts that work together to perform a major function, such as Gas Exchange.
What is a System?
This is the necessary input from the Digestive System for the Energy Equation.
What are Nutrients (or Glucose)?
This system creates movement by contracting and relaxing, often by pulling on bones.
What is the Muscular System?
The main waste gas removed by the Respiratory System.
What is Carbon Dioxide (CO_2)?
This holiday plant is traditionally hung up, and if two people stand under it, they are expected to kiss.
What is Mistletoe?
This organ is the specialized subsystem of the Excretory System that cleans the blood and removes waste.
What is the Kidney (or Kidneys)?
The Output of the Respiratory Subsystem that the Circulatory Subsystem relies on for transport.
What is Oxygen (O_2)?
The main organ of the Nervous System that processes information and controls movement.
What is the Brain?
The tiny filtering structures within the Kidneys that actually remove waste from the blood.
What are Nephrons?
This Disney princess appears in a holiday movie, The Enchanted Christmas, which takes place inside the Beast's castle.
Who is Belle?
This is the specific job of the Kidneys.
What is to clean the blood and remove excess water and urea waste?
The Input the Respiratory Subsystem needs from the Circulatory Subsystem to be replenished with Oxygen.
What is Deoxygenated blood?
When you run, these two systems are responsible for getting the Oxygen and Glucose to the muscle cells.
What are the Circulatory and Respiratory Systems?
All cellular waste must enter this subsystem first to be transported to the cleaning organs.
What is the Circulatory Subsystem (Blood)?
In Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas, this young character attempts to stay on Santa's "nice list" all year long but fails due to temptation.
Who is Goofy's son, Max?
Interacting Subsystems rely on each other to successfully complete this kind of task.
What is a larger, life-sustaining task?
The two crucial Inputs required for the Energy Equation (Metabolism).
What are Nutrients (Glucose) and Oxygen ($O_2$)?
The electrical signals from the Nervous System tell this specific type of tissue to contract or relax.
What is Muscle tissue?
This subsystem, working with the Circulatory System, removes waste primarily when the body needs to cool down.
What is the Skin/Sweat glands?
The first Black woman to travel to space, flying aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1992.
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Who is Dr. Mae C. Jemison?