Levels
This organ controls most of the rest of your body and enables thinking.
What is the brain?
I support the body so it doesn't fall over and is not a big pile of mush.
What is the skeletal system?
maintaining a stable internal environment
What is homeostasis?
a pathogen that requires a host to live off of
What is a parasite
I am the highest level of organization in the human body right before Organism.
What is an organ system?
This organ covers the outside of your entire body and is the largest organ by surface area.
What is your skin?
You need me to pump blood throughout your body.
What is the circulatory/cardiovascular system?
I help your body to move.
What is the muscular system?
If a patient had this symptom: severe heartburn after eating spicy food; this is the organ system most likely having a problem.
What is the Digestive system?
The 4 types of pathogens
what are viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites
I am a group of cells that are all about the same size and perform a similar function.
What is a tissue?
These organs support and protect your other organs and make up your skeleton.
What are bones?
You need me to break down and absorb food.
What is the digestive system.
I guard the body from invaders like bacteria and viruses.
What is the immune system?
If a patient had this symptom: trouble seeing/everything looks blurry; this is the organ system most likely having a problem.
What is the Nervous System?
A pathogen that is unicellular, and alive.
What is bacteria?
These organs contract and relax to allow your body parts to move.
What are muscles?
You need me to process information and send signals to control the rest of the body.
What is the nervous system?
I help the body create and grow offspring.
What is the Reproductive system?
Name at least two differences between a plant cell and an animal cell.
Plant cells have chloroplasts, cell walls, and large vacuoles. They can perform photosynthesis.
Animal cells have small vacuoles and no cell wall. They have lysosomes and centrioles.
a living organism that can breakdown other organisms
What is a fungus
Give an example of another organ and state its main function.
(Answers will vary, teacher will decide)
You need me to filter blood and remove liquid wastes.
What is the exretory system?
You use me when your body reacts to its environment by releasing hormones.
What is the endocrine system?
Describe how at least 3 different organ systems are involved in helping your body prepare and eat a sandwich.
Nervous - to think about how to make it and sense all of the ingredients
Muscular - to move your hands around
Digestive - to actually process and digest the sandwich
Skeletal - your teeth are bones you chew with
Etc. - there are many ways to answer this one!
What is avirus?