Body Systems 1
List the 4 main jobs of the skeletal system
What is helps with movement, add structure, produce blood cells, protects organs ?
system that takes in oxygen and removes carbon dioxide
What is respiratory system?
Provides support and protects the soft organs inside of the body
What is the skeletal system?
The site of gas exchange
what is the alveoli
basic unit of life
What is cells?
Systems that removes wastes from the body
What is excretory system?
Works with the skeletal system to produce movement
What is muscular system?
connects the mouth and throat to the lungs
What is the trachea?
Transports blood that carries nutrients to and from the body's cells
what is the circulatory/cardiovascular system?
Serves as the boss for all of the body's organs
What is the brain? Nervous system?
system that allows cells to obtain the nutrients they need from food that is broken down
What is digestive system?
acts as a barrier to keep pathogens out of your body?
What is skin?
sends, receives, and communicates all info through your body
What is nervous system?
helps sense pain, heat, and other external surroundings
What is nerves?
produces movement
What is the muscular system?
helps the digestive system move food until it becomes waste
pushes things through the organs...mainly involuntary
what is smooth muscle?
What is urinary and muscular systems?
describe how damage to the spinal cord affects the body
several answers.
connects the mouth to the stomach
What is the esophagus?
Explain how the circulatory and respiratory system work together?
What is the respiratory system takes in oxygen and delivers it to the heart. The circulatory system then transports oxygenated blood through the body. Exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen.
Name one system that works with the digestive system. Then explain how.
Describe the 4 systems what work together to enable an antelope to outrun a lion.
Answers may vary.
circulatory, respiratory, muscular, skeletal
Explain how 3 body systems work together when you bite into a cracker to change the cracker into a form that can be used by your body’s cells.
several answers.
Which body system is the most important? Choose one and explain why.
several answers