Vocabulary
This is the smallest unit of life that can carry out all functions.
What is a cell?
This is the main function of the skeletal system.
What is to provide structure, support, and protection to the body?
This is the main function of the respiratory system.
What is moving oxygen and carbon dioxide in and out of the body?
This is the main function of the digestive system.
What is to break down food into usable nutrients and energy for the body?
This body system is responsible for controlling all other body systems.
What is the nervous system?
These are muscles that can be controlled by choice.
What are voluntary muscles?
This is the main function of the muscular system.
What is movement, posture, and balance?
These are the two gases involved in gas exchange.
What are oxygen and carbon dioxide?
These are the five main parts of the digestive system.
What are the mouth, the esophagus, the stomach, and small intestine, and the large intestine?
This is how the skeletal and nervous systems work togetherr.
What is the skull, a part of the skeleton, protects the brain, a part of the nervous system?
Known as the "windpipe", it carries oxygen and carbon dioxide in and out of the body.
What is the trachea?
The skeletal system is responsible for creating these.
What are red blood cells?
This is the main function of the circulatory system.
What is moving blood and nutrients throughout the body?
This is the main function of the nervous system.
What is to transmit messages between the brain and the rest of the body to control functions?
This is the organizational structure of multicellular organisms.
What is cells -> tissues -> organs -> organ system -> organism?
This is a group of tissues joined together to perform a specific function.
What is an organ?
These are muscles that you cannot control, such as your heart beating.
What are involuntary muscles?
This is the main organ of the circulatory system.
What is the heart?
This organ is considered the control center for the body.
What is the brain?
This is how the respiratory and the digestive systems are similar.
What is they both remove waste?
This is a long tube that carries chewed food to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
The skeletal system and the muscular system work together to do this.
What is to help the body move?
This is how the respiratory and circulatory systems work together.
What is transporting oxygenated blood to the rest of the body?
This is the function of the esophagus.
What is to carry chewed food to the stomach?
This how you can tell if an organism is multicellular.
What is if it has structures that make up body systems?