Body Systems 1
The system that breaks down food for cells to use.
What is the Digestive System?
The system that captures oxygen from the atmosphere.
The "delivery system" in the body.
What is the Circulatory System?
The system which contains the bladder.
The basic building blocks of all living organisms.
What are cells?
The number of times a resting person breathes in and out per minute.
What is 12-20 times?
The role of the kidneys.
What is cleaning blood?
RBCs deliver ___________ to the body's tissues.
What is oxygen?
These 2 systems work together to enable us to move.
What are the muscular and skeletal systems?
The organs that absorb water and nutrients from food and carries away waste.
What are the small and large intestines?
What is carbon dioxide?
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Skin
What is the largest organ in the body?
Electrical impulses travel through the body and move across tiny gaps called _____________ using neurotransmitters.
What are synapses?
The bladders only job.
What is collecting urine?
If your body doesn't have enough of this mineral, it won't have enough RBCs.
What is Iron?
The reproductive organ that produces gametes.
What is the gonad?
A special protein in the RBCs that gives blood its red color.
What is hemoglobin?
The respiratory system filters out harmful particles using nose hairs, mucus, and ________.
What are cilia?
The windpipe.
What is the trachea?
A small flap of tissue that closes when we swallow to prevent food from entering the trachea.
What is the Epiglottis?
What the digestive system uses to speed up the chemical reaction that breaks down large molecules into small molecules.
What are digestive enzymes?
A type of connective tissue that connects muscles to other muscles.
What is the Fascia?
The pancreas is an organ located underneath the ______.
What is the Liver?
The muscular bag that contains acid and breaks food down into a liquid.
What is the stomach?
Carries information to and from the outer parts of the body where sensory neurons take the information and pass it through sense organs.
What is the PNS (Peripheral Nervous System)?
The 3 types of muscle tissues.
What are smooth, skeletal, and cardiac?
Where hormones act as chemical messengers, secrete hormones, and consist of glands.
What is the Endocrine system?
Molecules in your blood which are pumped by the heart to reach every cell in the body.
What are Glucose and Amino Acids?
The command center of the body, formed by the brain and spinal cord which motor neurons take information from to the muscles and organs.
What is the CNS (Central Nervous System)?
The _________ connect muscles to bones, while _____________ connect bones to other bones.
What are tendons and ligaments?
Allows glucose to enter the cell, where it can be used to release energy.
What is Insulin?
What are the Alveoli?
The 5 main organs that make up the Digestive System.
What are the: mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine?
The 4 main jobs of the Musculoskeletal System.
What are: Support, protect, move, and create blood cells
The 4 main organs that make up the Respiratory System.
What are the nose, trachea, lungs, and diaphragm?
Increases the surface area of the small intestine for the absorption of food molecules.
What is the function of the villi?
The molecules pass through the villi and enter the blood through these.
What are capillaries?
The 3 organs that make up the Excretory System.
What are the kidneys, bladder, and skin?
A chemical reaction that releases energy to power everything that cells, and your body as a whole, need to function.
What is Cellular Respiration?