Cells
A living thing.
What is an organism?
What functions does the skeletal & muscular system perform together?
What are provide support, allow for movement, and protect our vital organs?
The main structures of the respiratory system.
What are the nose, mouth, trachea, bronchi and lungs?
The nervous system is made up of the these.
What are the brain, the spinal cord and the nerve cells?
The main organs of the digestive system.
What are the mouth, esophagus, stomach and intestines?
A group of organisms of a particular kind that live in a particular place.
What is a population?
The way something is built, arranged, or organized.
What is a structure?
A fibrous connective tissue that attach muscle to bone.
What are tendons?
A muscle that contracts and relaxes itself giving the lungs a bigger or a shorter space, depending on the situation.
What is the diaphragm?
Serves as the center of the nervous system and is the most complex organ in the human body.
What is the brain?
The breakdown of food and absorption of particles and nutrients needed for energy and growth.
What is digestion?
The young born of living organisms.
What are offspring?
The special purpose or activity for which a thing exists or is used.
What is a function?
A type of muscle found only in the heart.
What is cardiac muscle?
Another name for the circulatory system.
What is the cardiovascular system?
The spinal cord is housed within the spinal column or what we know as the 33 bones called this.
What are vertebrae?
Digestion begins here as your teeth bite, tear and chew your food into smaller pieces, a process that is called this.
What is your mouth and mechanical digestion?
Example - geese flying south for winter...
What is a behavior?
Consist of one cell and perform all functions necessary for life within that one cell.
What is a unicellular organism?
Muscles that work without conscious thought or automatic.
What are involuntary muscles?
A fluid formed by solid ( red and white blood cells and platelets) and liquid (plasma) components.
What is blood?
A nerve cell is an electrically excitable cell that processes and transmits information through these kinds of signals.
What are chemical and electrical signals?
Also occurs in your mouth when enzymes in saliva continue to breakdown food even before you swallow.
What is chemical digestion?
The genetic information of an organism.
What is DNA?
Multicellular organisms have these that perform specialized functions necessary for life.
What are differentiated or specialized cells?
Smooth muscles...
What are involuntary muscle tissue found in the walls of hollow organs such as the stomach, intestines and bladder and in eyes?
A pump to deliver blood through the arteries and veins to the cells and tissues of the body.
What is the heart?
Two main types of nerve cells...
What are motor nerves and sensory nerves?
Accessory organs...
What are the pancreas, liver and gall bladder?
The passing on of traits from parents to their offspring.
What is heredity?