Nervous
What is the name of the fat layered section on the axon of a nerve cell that speeds up the process of sending neurotransmitter messages?
What is a myelin sheath?
What has bones that are hollow for greatly reduced weight?
What are birds?
Name 3 functions of the muscular system?
What is:
1. allows movement and flexibility
2. circulates blood
3. passes food through digestive system
Name 3 ways the integumentary system protects your body.
What are against infection, injury, and UV radiation?
Last shall be first!
The nervous system is divided into two types of nervous systems. What are they?
What is the central and peripheral nervous system?
What attaches bones together?
What are ligaments?
Muscles extend, flex, work in pairs, push, and pull. T/F
What is false?
What is the middle layer of the integument that houses white blood cells?
What is the dermis layer?
You lose a turn.
Your team loses this turn and the previous team takes your spot.
The nervous system maintains this to be in balance.
What is homeostasis?
What is the soft tissue in the center of bones called that produce red blood cells, calcium, and stores fat?
What are bone marrows?
What are the 3 types of muscle tissue?
What is skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscles?
What can the skin make with the help of sunlight?
What is Vitamin D?
Daily Double!
All teams get to wager up to their points they've earned on the next question prompt. Answers are written on a piece of paper before I give out the answer.
What are the organs of the nervous system?
What are the brain, spinal cord, and nerves?
What provides cushions between the joints of bones?
What is cartilage?
Name an organ for the 3 types of muscles.
Answers vary:
Smooth: skin, stomach, blood vessels, iris
Skeletal: biceps, triceps, pecs, traps, lats, delts, hamstring, quads, calves, abs
Cardiac: heart
How does the integumentary system regulate body temperature?
What is by shivering and sweating?
Spin the wheel!
Where can stimuli be found?
What are the internal and external environments?
What is the movement called at the shoulder joint?
What is a ball-in-socket?
What do your muscles do when you shiver?
What is contract?
What is the protein that makes up nails, hair, and the upper portion of the epidermis?
What is keratin?
Goldrush!
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