Digestive
What type of digestion is churning food with your teeth?
Mechanical digestion
What is the top layer of the skin?
Epidermis
What is the strongest kind of muscle?
Cardiac muscle
What part of your excretory system holds urine?
The bladder
What do white blood cells do?
They fight off infection
To carry food to the stomach
What does the cerebellum control?
Balance and Coordination
What do tendons connect?
Muscle and bone
What is the urethra?
Tube which urine exists the body
What is the diaphragm?
A contracting muscle that allows us to breath
Which intestine absorbs nutrients into the bloodstream?
The small intestine
What is Homeostasis?
To keep the internal environment when the external environment changes
Where are blood cells made?
The Bone Marrow
What are the filters in the kidneys called?
Nephrons
How are nutrients absorbed into the bloodstream?
The small intestine
Chewing food in your mouth with your teeth and saliva is what kind of digestion?
Mechanical and Chemical digestion
Which nervous system is the brain and spinal cord a part of?
The Central Nervous System
What kind of muscle is voluntary?
Skeletal
What does your kidney do?
filter urea from blood and forms urine
In what direction of the heart do veins carry blood?
Toward The Heart
What is the peristalisis?
The muscle that pushes substances through a tube
Name 3 functions of the Integumentary system.
Protection, regulating temperature, eliminating waste, gathering info from the environment, produces vitamin D
What is the largest bone in the human body?
The Femur
Which part of the bladder allows you to hold in urine?
Sphincters
How do you find your target heart rate?
220 - age = BPM