The body system that is responsible for breaking down your food into usable nutrients.
What is the digestive system?
The body system responsible for removing toxins and excess liquid from the body.
What is the excretory system?
The body system responsible for bringing in oxygen and removing carbon dioxide.
What is the respiratory system?
The 3 types of blood cells
What is
1. Red blood cells
2. White blood cells
3. And Plasma?
The body system that distributes oxygenated blood through the body.
The circulatory system
The process by which an organism's internal environment is kept stable in spite of changes in the external environment.
Homeostasis
The human heart has 4 chambers. What are their names?
Right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, left ventricle.
The number of bones in your body.
What is 206?
List the blood vessels from smallest to biggest.
What are Capillaries, veins, arteries?
List the levels of organization in the human body from simplest to most complex, starting with the cell and ending with organ system.
cell --> tissue --> organ --> organ system
What is the name of the smallest blood vessels?
A place where 2 bones meet.
a joint
Which chamber of the heart is responsible for pumping deoxygenated blood to the lungs?
Right ventricle
What is the sac-like structures surrounded by capillaries where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged?
Alveoli
What body system provides structure and support to the body and produces blood cells?
The skeletal system.
What are the tubes that branch off from the end of the trachea and head to each of the lungs?
Bronchi
True or false: Veins are blood vessels that deliver oxygenated blood to the body.
False: arteries
How does the liver help eliminate waste?
It is a secondary organ that produces urea from proteins. It also turns waste into forms that we can physically excrete from our body.
True or false: Ureters in the excretory system filter blood and produce urine.
False: kidneys
How does the circulatory system work with the excretory system?
To carry wastes away from the cells.
What are the main functions of the circulatory system?
1. Transports oxygen to cells
2. Removes carbon dioxide from cells
What is the main functions of the respiratory system?
1. The exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide between the blood and the cells of the body
What are the 3 types of muscle?
Give an example of where you could find each one.
1. Skeletal - arm or leg
2. Smooth - respiratory or digestive tract
3. Cardiac - heart
What is a functions of the excretory system?
Eliminate the waste products by creating and excreting urine
Compare and contrast movable and immovable joints.
Movable - allow for movement (elbow/ knee)
Immovable - bones are connected but do not move (skull)