Digestive System
What is the main purpose of the digestive system?
To turn food into energy for the body
What type of muscle is the heart made of?
Cardiac muscle
What are the three main parts of the nervous system?
The brain, spinal cord, and nerves.
What is where respiratory system starts?
The nose or the mouth
What moves blood away from the heart?
The arteries
Which part of the digestive system absorbs nutrients from food?
The small intestines
1. What is the main function of the respiratory system?
2. What does it give to the body and what does it get rid of?
1. Breathing
2. Gives the body oxygen and gets rid of carbon dioxide (waste)
Muscle that helps the lungs inhale and exhale
What is the diaphragm?
What is the unit of energy your body uses called?
A calorie
What do you have all over your body that gathers information/signals to send to the brain?
The Nerves
Which system does the respiratory work with to transport oxygen to all parts of the body?
The Circulatory system. The oxygen travels through the blood stream.
System that fights disease and blood cells that keeps your body healthy
What is the white blood cells?
What is the purpose of the digestive system?
Eliminate solid waste
Explain the cycle that the blood goes through in the body, beginning with the heart.
1. The heart pumps oxygen-poor blood to the lungs.
2. The lungs oxygenate the blood and send it back to the heart.
3. The heart pumps blood to the rest of the body through the arteries.
4. The arteries branch off into capillaries that take oxygen-rich blood to the cells.
5. The capillaries take oxygen-poor blood to the veins.
6. The veins take oxygen-poor blood back to the heart, and the cycle starts over.
What body system does the nervous system control?
*Daily Double*
All of them
Skeletal, muscular, cardiovascular, respiratory, and digestive
What are the four main parts of the respiratory system?
Nose, Trachea, Lungs, and the diaphragm