Excretory/Endocrine
Chemical messengers produced by the Endocrine System
What is Hormones?
The function of the Digestive System
What is breakdown of food and absorption of nutrients?
The function of the Respiratory System
What is breathing and respiration?
The function of the Circulatory System
What is the transport of nutrients and materials throughout the body?
The function of the nervous system
What is to control and coordinate responses of the body?
The function of the Excretory System
What is removing wastes from the body?
The physical breakdown of food.
What is mechanical digestion?
The difference between breathing and respiration
What is the movement of air into and out of lungs (breathing) and the exchange of gases (respiration)?
The blood vessels that bring blood to the heart
What is Veins?
The three types of muscle
What is cardiac, smooth, and skeletal muscle?
The organ that filters the blood
What is Kidneys
The site of chemical digestion.
What is the mouth and saliva enzymes?
The muscle that helps us breathe
What is the diaphragm?
The blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart
What is Arteries?
The muscle type(s) that is striated
What is cardiac and skeletal muscle?
The pathway of urine in the body
What is urine produced in the kidneys, travels through ureters, stored in the bladder, and eliminated through the urethra?
The site were most nutrients are absorbed
What is the small intestines?
The site of gas exchange
What is the alveoli?
The names of the 4 chambers of the heart
What is the right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle?
The structure that attaches skeletal muscle to bone
What is Tendons?
Two other excretory organs and what they excrete
What is the skin that secretes sweat, and the lungs that excrete carbon dioxide?
The wave-like muscle contractions that move food through the digestive tract.
What is peristalsis?
Describe how the diaphragm works to help us breathe
What is the diaphragm contracts and move down to pull air into the lungs, and then relaxes and moves up when air is pushed out?
The side of the heart that has blood with high oxygen levels
What is the Left Side?
The part of a neuron that receives neurotransmitters
What is Dendrites?