Body System Basics
This term describes a group of organs working together to perform a specific job.
What is Body System?
This type of muscle is attached to bones and allows voluntary movement.
What is skeletal muscle?
This organ acts as a pump to move blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
This system breaks food down into nutrients the body can use.
What is the digestive system?
Name one system that helps protect the body from injury or infection.
What is the immune, integumentary, or skeletal system?
Which system is responsible for transporting oxygen, nutrients, and wastes through the body?
What is the cardiovascular system?
Which system provides the rigid framework muscles pull against?
What is the skeletal system?
This gas is taken into the lungs and delivered to cells for energy production.
What is oxygen?
This organ begins digestion by mechanically breaking down food.
What is the mouth?
When you touch a hot stove and pull your hand away quickly, this system reacts first.
What is the nervous system?
Which two systems work most closely together to get oxygen to your cells?
What are the respiratory and cardiovascular systems?
Biceps and triceps are examples of this type of muscle pair.
What are antagonistic muscle pairs?
Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart are called these.
What are arteries?
After digestion, nutrients enter the bloodstream primarily through this organ.
What is the small intestine?
This system releases hormones that regulate growth, metabolism, and stress.
What is the endocrine system?
This system sends electrical signals that control movement, thoughts, and reflexes.
What is the nervous system?
This system supplies oxygen and nutrients to working muscles during exercise.
What is the cardiovascular system?
This process occurs in the lungs when oxygen enters the blood and carbon dioxide leaves it.
What is gas exchange?
This system removes wastes and helps maintain water balance in the body.
What is the urinary (excretory) system?
During exercise, muscles, lungs, and heart working together is an example of this idea.
What is body systems working together (integration)?
This concept explains how different body systems depend on one another to function properly.
What is interdependence?
When muscles produce heat as a byproduct of movement, this system helps regulate body temperature.
What is the integumentary system (skin)?
During exercise, this increases to deliver more oxygen to working muscles.
What is heart rate (or cardiac output)?
This concept describes how the body maintains stable internal conditions like temperature and hydration.
What is homeostasis?
If one body system fails, this explains why other systems are often affected as well.
What is system interdependence?