Digestive System
What is the role of the digestive system?
To break down food into nutrients that can be absorbed and used by the body.
What is the function of the skull?
To protect the brain.
What is the two main functions of the respiratory system?
To bring oxygen into the body and remove carbon dioxide.
What is the role of the heart?
The heart pumps blood throughout the body.
How do the hormones produced by the endocrine system travel around the body?
The bloodstream
This system breaks down food into nutrients that can be absorbed and used by the body.
Digestive system
What transports food from the mouth to the stomach.
Oesophagus
What is the longest bone in the human body?
Femur (thigh bone)
Name the two tubes that carry air from the trachea into the lungs.
Bronchi
What is the main function of the circulatory system?
To transport oxygen, nutrients, hormones, and wastes around the body.
These are chemical messengers produced by an endocrine gland that travels through the bloodstream to target cells or organs.
Hormones
This system is a collection of glands that produce and release hormones to regulate body functions such as growth, metabolism, and reproduction.
The Endocrine System
Where does most digestion and absorption occur?
In the small intestine.
What tissue connects bones to other bones?
Ligaments.
The windpipe that carries air from the throat to the bronchi is known as the ....
trachea
What are the main parts of the circulatory system?
Hint - 3
The heart, blood, and blood vessels
This gland because it controls the activity of many other endocrine glands.
Pituitary gland
How do enzymes help digestion?
Enzymes speed up chemical reactions that break large food molecules into smaller ones.
This moistens food and contains the enzyme amylase, which begins the digestion of starch.
Saliva
What are the five main functions of the skeletal system?
Support, protection, movement, blood cell production, and mineral storage.
What is respiration?
The process by which cells release energy from food using oxygen.
What are the three main types of blood vessels?
Arteries, veins, and capillaries.
Name four major glands that are part of the endocrine system
hypothalamus, pituitary, pineal, thyroid, parathyroid, thymus, adrenal glands, pancreas, and gonads
This is the framework of bones, cartilage, and joints that supports and protects the body.
Skeletal system
What are the two types of digestion?
Mechanical digestion and chemical digestion.
Where are red blood cells produced?
In the bone marrow.
What organs make up the respiratory system?
Hint - 8
Nose, mouth, trachea, bronchi, lungs, bronchioles, alveoli, and diaphragm.
What is the function of red blood cells?
They transport oxygen around the body.
What is the main function of the endocrine system
(full sentence answer)
To regulate and coordinate body processes, helping maintain homeostasis.
To withstand the high pressure of blood being pumped from the heart, arteries have thick muscular walls.
Arteries are part of what system?
Circulatory system