Function
What is the function of the urinary system?
Filters blood to remove waste products, toxins, and excess water, creating urine.
The largest organ in the body, it's in the integumentary system
What is skin?
This system coordinates the activities of the brain, nerves, and spinal cord.
What is the nervous system?
This chemical is in the air we breathe and we need it to survive.
What is oxygen?
The small tubes that carry blood AWAY from the heart.
What are arteries?
What is the function of the digestive system?
Breaks down food into nutrients for energy, growth, and cell repair, then eliminates waste.
The place in the digestive system where food breakdown begins.
What is the mouth?
This system provides movement for the body.
What is the muscular system?
How does the integumentary system fight infection?
Acts as a physical, chemical, and biological barrier.
A group of similar cells that work together to accomplish the task of an organ.
What are tissues?
What is the function of the nervous system?
The body’s primary control and communication network, managing everything from voluntary movement and conscious thought to automatic, life-sustaining processes like heart rate, digestion, and breathing.
Another part of the digestive system that transports food from the mouth to the stomach
What is the esophagus?
A body system that produces hormones and helps us regulate things like mood, growth, and metabolism.
What is the Endocrine System?
The endocrine glands in the endocrine system are made of these things which regulate important chemicals in your body
What are hormones?
These connect all areas of the body to the brain and spinal cord and are located in the nervous system.
What are Nerves?
What is the function of the muscular system?
Produces movement, maintains posture, stabilizes joints, generates heat for body temperature regulation, and circulates blood.
An involuntary muscle (it operates whether we think about it or not) that is part of the cardiovascular system
What is the heart?
This system provides several openings through which a variety of waste materials are excreted.
What is the excretory system?
These gland are located in the excretory system and excrete urea and salts from the body.
What are sweat glands?
How does the muscular system interact with the skeletal system?
The skeletal and muscular systems work together to provide structure, support, and movement.
What is the function of the endocrine system?
Regulate essential bodily functions, including metabolism, growth, development, tissue function, sexual function, reproduction, sleep, and mood.
Balloon-like sacs that inflate and deflate, bringing air into and out of the body.
What are the lungs?
This system is the body's defense against diseases and foreign invaders.
What is the immune system?
How does the immune system fight viruses?
The rapid, general innate response that limits spread, and the slower, targeted adaptive response that destroys infected cells, also creating memory cells for future occurences.
How does the respiratory system work with the circulatory system?
The respiratory and circulatory systems work together in a continuous loop to deliver oxygen to cells and remove carbon dioxide.