The system that causes our leg to "jump" when the doctor hits our knee with a tiny mallet.
What is the nervous system?
A bundle of nerves that carries messages between the brain and the rest of the body. It also controls quick reflexes, like pulling your hand away from something hot.
What is the spinal chord?
This is the first stop for food on the journey through the digestive system.
What is the mouth
These are different in plants and animals.
What are cells?
This system includes the exchange of gases including CO2 and O2.
What is the respiratory system?
The system responsible for converting food to energy.
What is the digestive system?
Nerves that carry messages from the brain to muscles, telling them when to move.
What are motor nerves
The tube food goes through on the way to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
True/False: Organ, organ system, cell, organ, tissue is the correct order.
What is false?
This organ is the main organ in the respiratory system.
What are lungs?
The system responsible for walking, speaking chewing etc...
What is the muscular system?
The body acting fast before your brain gets involved.
What is REFLEX movement?
The intestine where food waste solidifies and becomes waste.
What is the large intestine?
What is the largest organ of the human body?
What is skin?
This muscle helps to pull oxygen into the lungs and then relaxes to help to push carbon dioxide out of the lungs.
What is the diaphragm?
The system responsible for moving blood around our bodies?
What is the circulatory system?
Where our personality, decision making, thinking, planning and problem solving occur in the brain.
What is the frontal lobe?
The intestine that allows vitamins and minerals are allowed to be absorbed into other parts of the body.
What is the small intestine?
True/False: Cell, tissue, organ, system, organism is the correct order.
What is true?
These bowl-shaped cells carry oxygen through the blood.
What are red blood cells?
The system responsible for sending signals throughout our body.
What is the nervous system?
A condition that causes the brain to sometimes send extra signals to the body by mistake.
What is Tourettes Syndrome?
This organ acts as a filter. It also produces bile for breaking down fats and protecting the body from infection.
What is the liver?
These are the building block of life.
What are cells?
The tiny sacks in the lungs that inflate when we breathe in.
What are alveoli?