Body Systems
System responsible for circulating blood throughout the body.
What is the circulatory system?
The basic unit of all living things.
What is a cell?
The framework of the body is provided by this system.
What is the skeletal system?
The largest and most complex nerve tissue in the body.
What is the brain?
The study of the functions and activities of body structures
What is physiology?
The system that controls and coordinates all other body systems.
What is the nervous system?
Substance that surrounds the nucleus and contains nutrients.
What is cytoplasm?
The type of muscle found only in the heart.
What is cardiac muscle?
The part of the nervous system that controls voluntary actions.
What is the central nervous system?
The study of the human body structures.
What is anatomy?
System made up of the skin and its appendages.
What is the integumentary system?
The control center of the cell.
What is the nucleus?
Muscle that allows the forearm to rotate the palm upward.
What is the supinator?
Nerves that carry messages from the brain to muscles.
What are motor nerves?
The part of the cell that encloses and protects it.
What is the cell membrane?
System responsible for breaking down food into nutrients.
What is the digestive system?
Groups of cells that perform a specific function.
What is tissue?
Bone that forms the forehead.
What is the frontal bone?
Type of nerves that carry messages to the brain.
What are sensory nerves?
System responsible for growth, reproduction, and health of the body.
What is the endocrine system?
System that protects the body from disease.
What is the immune (or lymphatic) system?
Tissue that contracts and moves parts of the body.
What is muscular tissue?
The movable jawbone.
What is the mandible?
The cranial nerve that controls facial expressions.
What is the seventh cranial nerve?
The three main parts of the cell.
What are nucleus, cytoplasm, and cell membrane?