Digestive System
Liquid in the mouth that starts to chemically break down food.
What is Saliva?
True or False: The skeletal system contains LESS than 200 bones.
What is false?
This type of muscle is found in the heart.
What is cardiac muscle?
The main ORGAN of the circulatory system.
The heart
The principle organ of the respiratory system.
What are the lungs?
Main organ in the integumentary system.
What is the skin?
Long, thin, and muscular tube that connects the pharynx to the stomach.
What is the esophogus?
Our rib cage, vertebrate, and skull provide this as part of the main functions of the skeletal system.
Describes muscle humans DON"T consciously control and includes smooth and cardiac muscle.
What is Involuntary?
The number of chambers the heart contains.
Four (4)
Also known as the windpipe
Part of the integumentary system that detect stimuli and sends the information to the nervous system.
What are receptors?
Part of the digestive system absorbs 90% of the nutrients from ingested food.
What is the small intestine?
The type of bone that is very dense and tough?
What is compact bone?
The muscular and skeletal systems work together to produce this.
What is movement?
The largest artery in the human body, blood leaves here to deliver oxygen to the rest of the body
What is the Aorta?
Part of the respiratory system where air and food passes.
What is the pharynx?
Sometimes not considered part of the integumentary system, this layer of the skin has loose connective tissues and holds some organs.
What is the hypodermis?
Organ also known as the large intestine.
What is the colon?
Connects bone to bone.
What is a ligament?
Connects muscles to bones.
What is a tendon?
Has both a superior and inferior this vein is how blood enters the heart from the rest of the body.
What is the Vena Cava
The location in the respiratory system where the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide take place.
Where/What is the alveoli?
Brown and Yellow-brown pigmentation produced by specialized cells that help protect from the UV rays of the sun.
What is Melanin?
The digestive systems main responsibility is the breaking down of food to provide what to other body systems?
What is ENERGY
The center of your bone where new blood cells are produced?
What is marrow?/ bone marrow
Two words that describe how striated muscles help your bones move your body?
What is contracting and relaxing?
The muscle that separates the left and right atrium, from the left and right ventricle
What is the septum?
If you choke while trying to drink something, it is probably the result of this not closing properly.
What is the epiglottis?"
An accessory structure of the integumentary structure, it is keep moist from a mixture secreted by the sebaceous glands.
What is hair?