Organs and Systems
Your largest body organ is your_____.
Skin
What is the curved piece of glass that is used to magnify objects on a microscope?
Lens
Which body system gives our body shape and protects our organs?
Skeletal System
Your 5 senses are ____, _____, _____, ______, _______.
Touch, taste, smell, sight, and hearing are your five senses.
Similar cells come together to form tissue. What does similar tissue come together to form?
Organs
Hundreds of bones make up the_______ system.
Skeletal
What is the tiny, one-celled organism that Anton van Leeuwenhoek discovered when looking at water through a microscope?
Bacteria
This body system is responsible for circulating, or moving blood to all other systems.
Circulatory system
Where is your sense of taste located?
Your mouth
What is the softest and most abundant tissue in the human body?
Connective tissue
Nerves travel up and down the spinal cord to the brain, the center of the ______ system.
Nervous
This instrument is used to view microscopic organisms
Microscope
The body system that is responsible for carrying oxygen to your lungs so you can breathe is the________.
Respiratory system
Just above your nose are your eyes. Which of your senses do they control?
Sight
Your blood is a tissue, made up of many cells. What type of tissue is blood?
Connective
Blood circulates, or travels, through the body as part of the _______ system.
Circulatory system
Anton lived a very long time ago, so how do we know so much about his discoveries?
He kept detailed journals, many of which were published in England.
Which body system processes the foods that you eat?
Digestive System
Your ears catch and change sound waves into nerve signals that travel to your brain. Your ears help you ____.
Hear
Whenever you hear the word cardiac you may safely guess that it has something to do with the heart. Therefore, where is cardiac muscle tissue located?
In the heart
Cells group together to form tissues; tissues group together to form organs. What do groups of organs form?
Systems
Anton had a name for the living things he saw under his microscope’s lens. What did he call these living things?
Animalcules or “little animals”
What is one of the body’s building blocks? It is also the smallest unit of life that can carry out functions of living things.
Cells
Which one of the 5 senses makes eating pleasurable?
Sense of smell
What is a group of the same cells that perform the same job called?
Tissue