Control and Signals
This "Control Center" uses the brain and spinal cord to send high-speed electrical signals.
What is the Nervous System?
This "Internal Frame" supports your body and protects your soft organs.
What is the Skeletal System?
This "Gas Exchange" system brings oxygen in and pushes carbon dioxide out
What is the Respiratory System?
This "Fuel Processor" breaks down food into nutrients your cells can use
What is the digestive system?
This "Defense Force" hunts down and destroys invaders like viruses.
These are the actual chemical signals sent out by the Endocrine system
What are Hormones?
These pull on your bones to allow you to walk and breathe.
What are Muscles / The Muscular System?
Known as the "Delivery Service," it uses the heart to pump blood throughout the body.
What is the Circulatory System?
This "Trash Pickup" system filters your blood and removes liquid waste.
What is the excretory system?
Known as the "Legacy Department," this system is responsible for producing offspring.
What is the reproductive system?
This verb means to control or balance the body’s internal environment, like a thermostat. Bonus: What is this bodily process called?
What is Regulate
Bonus: homeostasis
This "Outer Armor" includes your skin, hair, and nails.
What is the Integumentary System?
These are the two main things the Circulatory system transports to your cells.
What are Oxygen and Nutrients?
The Digestive system turns food into this, which is used by cells for energy.
What are nutrients?
These specific cells in the Immune system hunt down bacteria.
What are white blood cells?
This system uses glands to send messages that control growth and mood.
What is the Endocrine System?
The Integumentary system's main job is to keep you from drying out and to keep these out of your body.
What are Germs/Bacteria?
This is the specific waste gas that the Respiratory system removes from your body.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
This system is responsible for removing extra water from the body to keep things clean.
What is the excretory system?
The goal of the "Legacy Department" is to ensure that this group continues to exist.
What are humans?
Between the Nervous and Endocrine systems, this one is responsible for "long-distance" messaging.
What is the Endocrine System?
This structural system is responsible for producing your blood cells.
Bonus 500: Identify where in this system blood cells are being produced.
What is the Skeletal System?
Bonus 500: The bone marrow
What organ is (objectively) the most important muscle in your body?
What is the heart?
*Daily Double*
This is the primary organ of the "Fuel Processor" department that absorbs the nutrients.
What is the small intestine?
A particular cell in your body that "eats" foreign invaders.
What is a macrophage?