Immune System
True or False: Your white blood cells begin attacking pathogens as soon as they enter your bloodstream.
What is false? The pathogen has time to multiply while the body determines how to fight it.
A fever is your body’s way of doing this.
What is killing off pathogens by “cooking” (overheating) them?
This system allows your body to communicate with your brain.
What is the nervous system?
This system allows our species to thrive by growing our population.
What is the reproductive system?
Nerve cells in your foot communicate with your brain by sending this type of signal.
What is an electrical signal?
White blood cells attack pathogens by doing this.
What is “eating” (engulfing) or breaking them apart?
The organs of the immune system are connected by these.
What are lymph nodes?
The three stages of the birthing process.
What are labor, deliver of the baby, & delivery of the placenta?
Blood is this type of tissue.
What is connective tissue?
This system moves nutrients & oxygen throughout your body.
What is the circulatory system?
What you are when you can no longer be sickened by a pathogen that your body recognizes.
What is immune?
This organ pair filters pathogens that enter through your mouth & nose.
What are your tonsils?
The part of your eye where images are formed.
What is the retina?
This system is made up primarily of your skin.
What is the integumentary system?
What is inside the bones / squishy bone / bone marrow?
These work by exposing your body to a milder or inert version of a pathogen.
What are vaccines?
The main function of memory lymphocytes.
What is “remembering pathogens / illnesses your body has fought off before”?
This decreases the amount of glucose in your blood.
What is insulin?
Chemical messengers that communicate between the organs.
What are hormones?
The role of bile in digestion.
What is to break down fat?
Three barriers your body has to prevent infection.
What are skin, mucus, & stomach acid?
Memory lymph nodes are made here.
Where is the spleen?
These carry blood away from the heart, while these carry it to the heart.
What are arteries (away) & blood vessels (to).
Define homeostasis.
What is “the process by which our most maintains normalcy - in temperature, weight, balance, etc.”
The chemical produced by platelets to form a scab over a cut.
What is fibrin?