🍔Digestive System
This is where digestion begins. Chemical and mechanical digestion take place here using teeth and saliva.
What is the mouth?
Definition-The body system that collects information from your senses about your environment. It includes your brain, spinal cord, and nerves
What is the Nervous System?
This is the main organ of this system.
Name the main organ of this system.
What are the lungs?
These two systems eliminate solid and liquid waste.
What are the digestive and excretory systems?
This organ breaks down food by contracting and using acid.
What is the stomach?
Definition-Specialized cells or bundles of nerve cells in the human body that send messages within the nervous system.
What are nerves?
Name the three types of blood vessels.
Veins, arteries, capillaries.
Name the two gases that your respiratory system uses.
What is oxygen and carbon dioxide?
Describe how the Nervous System works with the Digestive System.
Tells the organs to digest food as involuntary movement.
Description- Breaks down food, absorbs nutrients, and eliminates waste
What is the function of the digestive system?
Definition-The nerve cells in your body.
What is a neuron?
The side of the heart that is LOW OXYGEN.
What is the right side?
True or False: When you exercise, your breathing slows down because you burn energy faster.
False! Your respiratory rate increases.
A dog smells a treat and begins to drool. This is a _________ response.
What is a sense receptor responding to a chemical signal?
This organ continues the process of digestion by absorbing nutrients through blood vessels.
What is the small intestine?
This type of neuron senses information from the world.
What are sensory neurons?
This blood vessel brings blood back to the heart.
What are veins?
Name the blood vessel that allows blood to travel from the heart to the lungs to gain oxygen.
What is the pulmonary artery?
Name the levels of organization.
Cells--> Tissue--> Organ--> Organ System
The blood vessels that absorb nutrients in the small intestine.
What are capillaries?
Describe the order in which a message is analyzed by your nervous system.
Hint: Think order of neurons when petting a dog.
Sensory Neuron --> Interneuron--> Motor Neuron
Name the four chambers of the heart
Right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, left ventricle.
Definition- Tiny air sacs in your lungs that take up the oxygen you breathe in and keep your body going.
Memories are formed when....
The brain stores information that it has processed.