DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
What is the main job of the digestive system?
Answer: To break down food and absorb nutrients.
What organ pumps blood through your body?
Answer: The heart.
What is the main job of the respiratory system?
Answer: To bring oxygen into the body and remove carbon dioxide.
What is the main job of the skeletal system?
Answer: To support and protect the body.
Which system brings oxygen into the body?
Answer: The respiratory system.
What is the tube called that carries food from your mouth to your stomach?
Answer: The esophagus.
What are the tiny cells called that carry oxygen?
Answer: Red blood cells.
What organ helps you breathe?
Answer: The lungs.
How do bones move?
Muscles contracting
Which system moves oxygen and nutrients around the body?
Answer: The circulatory system.
What organ churns food and mixes it with acids?
Answer: The stomach.
Name the three types of blood vessels.
Answer: Arteries, veins, and capillaries.
What is the thing that pushes the lungs like a plunger?
Answer: diaphragm.
True or false?: Bones are responsible for creating blood cells.
It makes:
How do the digestive and circulatory systems work together?
Answer: The digestive system absorbs nutrients and the circulatory system carries them through the body.
What is the job of the small intestine?
Answer: To absorb nutrients from food.
What blood vessel carries blood away from the heart? What carries it to the heart?
Away = Arteries.
to = Veins
What gas do humans breathe out?
Answer: Carbon dioxide.
What connects muscles to bones?
Answer: Tendons.
How do the respiratory and circulatory systems work together?
Answer: The respiratory system brings in oxygen and the circulatory system carries it to cells.
List the whole tract of the digestive system
Mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine...
List the four types of blood and what do they do
Plasma: Liquid part that carries nutrients, waste, hormones, and blood cells.
Red blood cells: Carry oxygen around the body.
White blood cells: Fight germs and infections.
Platelets: Help blood clot and stop bleeding.
List the three main parts of the respiratory system
Trachea, lungs, and diaphragm
Name two important jobs of bones besides helping us move.
Answer: Protect organs, make blood cells, store minerals, support the body.
You are running during gym class. Explain how all four systems work together.
Answer: The respiratory system brings in oxygen, the circulatory system carries oxygen and nutrients, the digestive system provides energy from food, and the muscular/skeletal system helps movement.