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The system that breaks down food for cells to use.....
What is the Digestive system?
Organ system that captures oxygen from the atmosphere...
What is the Respiratory system?
Organ system that gives your body structure and allows for movement
What is the Skeletal system?
Organ system that controls movement of muscles, senses like sight and sound, and the body's reaction to any stimulus.
What is the Nervous system?
Organ system that transports oxygen and food around your body
What is the Circulatory system?
The place where two bones meet?
What is a joint?
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The body system with glands and hormones.
What is the endocrine system?
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Name 2 jobs of the Skeletal System.
Support, Protect, Move, Create blood cells
The sheet of muscle that operates the lungs
What is the Diaphragm?
The basic building blocks of all living organisms.... (5 letters)
What are cells?
Organ that absorbs water and nutrients from food and carries away waste
What are the Intestines?
Involuntary contractions that Push food from the mouth to the stomach
Peristalsis.
The main organ of the nervous system.
What is the brain?
What attaches muscles to bones?
Tendons
Which organs make up the circulatory system?
What are the Heart and blood vessels?
Organ that contains acid and breaks food down
What is the Stomach?
A group of like tissues make up.....
What is An Organ?
Begins the process of mechanical breakdown in the digestive system
What is the mouth?
Name the part of the brain in charge of motor output and reasoning.
The part of the brain responsible for processing visual input.
Occipital Lobe.
Name the system that processes water.
The excretory system.
These bones not only support your body but also protect your spinal cord
What are Vertebrae?
A waste gas that is transported in veins from the body to the lungs via the heart
What is carbon dioxide?
These two systems work together to enable us to move
What are the muscular and skeletal systems?
(muscles and skeleton)
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Blood is carried back to your heart in little tubes called what?
What are veins?
Types of involuntary muscles (2)
What are smooth and cardiac muscles?
List the structures that make up the Respiratory System (5)
What are the Nose, Mouth, Trachea, Lungs & Diaphragm
This is a major protective system for our bodies.
What is the immune system?
This organ of the circulatory system is composed of completely involuntary muscle tissue and without it we will die
What is the Heart?
These two pipes share an opening at the back of your throat...one pipe/tube takes food to the stomach, the other pipe/tube takes air to the lungs
What are the Esophagus and Trachea (Windpipe)?
This is the only moving bone in your skull
What is the Lower Jaw bone (MANDIBLE)?
The organ that absorbs most of the nutrients using small fingerlike structures called villi.
What are the small intestines?
A bundle of nerves that go to and from the brain.
What is the spinal cord?
What is a synapse?
The largest organ of the body.
The skin.
What are Alvoli?
The type of blood vessel that carries blood back toward the heart.
What are Veins?
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Digestion begins here.
What is the mouth?
This organ produces bile to help break down fat
What is the liver?
What is the large intestine?
Name the enzyme responsible for breaking down carbohydrates in the mouth.
Amylase
The only tissue in the body that does not receive its oxygen through blood vessels.
The cornea.
the large tube that carries oxygen and CO2 between your lungs and mouth.
What is your Trachea?
The 2 large "branches" off of the trachea.
What are Bronchi?
the 2 types of digestion that happen in the stomach.
What are Chemical and Physical (mechanical)?
This organ stores bile.
What is the gall bladder?
Bile breaks this down to make it easier to digest.
This organ produces insulin.
Has bronchi and alveoli for gas exchange.
What is the respiratory system?
name one of the 2 organs that can grow stones?
Gall bladder
kidneys
What body systems does the circulatory system work with
excretory, respiratory, digestive, skeletal, *immune*
how much blood does the average human have
about 1.5 gallons
What is the longest organ in the human body
Small intestine
Name two examples of the first line of defense in the immune system.
Skin. Mucous membranes.
What is the difference between complex and simple carbohydrates?
Complex last longer and have more chemical bonds. Simple usually taste sweet and are quick sources of energy.
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list the organs that food travels through in order in the digestive system. *ONLY organs that food actually travels through.
mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine.
What substance does the liver put into the bloodstream to be filtered out by the kidneys?
Urea.
What does the gall bladder hold?
Bile.
put these in the correct order from simple to complex.
organism, organ, cell, organ system, tissue.
Cell - tissue - organ - organ system - organism.
Left atrium.
Approximately how many muscles are in the human body?
600
What is another name for the calf muscle?
Gastrocnemius.