Integumentary System (skin)
This is the outer layer of the skin.
What is the Epidermis?
These are the 3 types of muscles.
What are smooth, skeletal and cardiac?
This is a tough, flexible connective tissue that contains the protein collagen. It's found in the ears and nose.
What is cartilage?
This is is a long, narrow tube that carries food from the pharynx to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
This is the number of chambers the heart contains.
What is 4?
All living things are made up of these.
What are cells?
This is a brown pigment that gives skin most of its color.
What is melanin?
This is the type of muscle the heart is made of.
What is cardiac?
These connect bones of the skeleton and hold them together.
What are ligaments?
This is the process in which nutrients or other molecules are taken up by the blood.
What is absorption?
With circulation, your heart provides your body with these.
What are oxygen, nutrients and a way to get rid of wastes?
This is a disease in which the bones become porous and weak because they do not contain enough calcium.
What is Osteoporosis?
These are cells in your skin which produce melanin.
What are melanocytes?
This increases the endurance of your cardiac (heart) muscle.
What is aerobic exercise?
This is the bone in the upper arm.
What is the humerus?
These are proteins that speed up a biochemical reaction. They help with digestion.
What are enzymes?
These act like doors that control blood flow in the heart.
What are valves?
This is a crack or break in bone.
What is a bone fracture?
This is the inner layer of your skin.
What is the dermis?
These attach muscles to bones.
What are tendons?
These are the bones in the lower arm.
What are the radius and ulna?
This is secreted by the liver and helps with digestion.
What is bile?
These organs remove wastes from blood.
What are kidneys?
This is a strain or tear in a ligament that has been twisted or stretched too far.
What is a sprain?
This is what hair on your body grows out of.
What are hair follicles?
These are 2 muscles in your upper arm.
What are biceps and triceps?
The bones store this nutrient. It is needed to maintain strong bones.
What is calcium?
This is an acid in your stomach that helps break down food.
What is hydrochloric acid?
These are tubes that carry (or return) blood TO the heart.
What are veins?
These are 2 nutrients that keep bones healthy and strong.
What are calcium and vitamin D?
These are oil glands inside your skin.
What are sebaceous glands?
These are muscles in your thigh (leg).
What are quadriceps?
This is the main function of the skeletal system.
What is "to protect the soft organs of the body."
This is what produces saliva inside your mouth to help you break down and swallow food.
What are salivary glands?
The 2 chambers that form the top of the heart.
What are atria? (one is an atrium)
What are the pancreas, liver, or gall bladder?
This helps maintain a normal body temperature.
What are sweat glands?
How do you make your muscles bigger?
lift weights
What is bone marrow?
The next 2 places your food travels when it leaves your stomach.
What are the small and large intestines?
The two chambers that form the bottom of the heart.
What are ventricles?
The organs that absorb oxygen from the blood and release carbon dioxide. We need them to breathe.
What are lungs?
This is the main function of skin.
What organ protects your body?
What nutrient helps muscles grow?
What is Protein?
Early in the development of a human fetus, the skeleton is made entirely of cartilage. This is the process where soft cartilage gradually changes into hard bone.
What is ossification?
These are the major organs of the digestive system.
What are the mouth, esophagus, stomach, and small and large intestines.
This helps you know if your heart is working. You can find it by lightly pressing on the skin anywhere there's a large artery running just beneath your skin. Two good places to find it are on the side of your neck and the inside of your wrist, just below the thumb.
What is your pulse?
This is the muscle directly under the lungs. It helps the lungs function and helps us breathe.
What is the diaphragm?
Hair and nails are made up mostly of this.
What is the protein called keratin?
What is the most important muscle?
What is the heart?
This is a place where two or more bones of the skeleton meet.
What is a joint?
This organ filters our blood and gets rid of wastes from food. It breaks down fats, proteins and carbohydrates.
What is the liver?
These carry blood away from your heart to other parts of your body.
What are arteries?
This is what holds our urine until we go to the bathroom.
These are the 3 types of joints.
What are 'ball and socket, pivot, and hinge'?
These are the 4 components of our blood (what it is made up of).
What are red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets and plasma?
These 2 organs filter our blood (gets rid of wastes) to produce 1 to 2 quarts of urine (which is composed of wastes and extra fluid our body doesn't need).
What are kidneys?
These are 4 parts of our body that are part of our immune system.
What are white blood cells, lymph nodes, spleen and tonsils.
These are 2 ways that we know our body is fighting pathogens or infection.
What is fever and inflammation?
This is what our blood produces to help keep us from getting sick again.
What are antibodies?