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The organ system consisting of the heart and blood vessels that moves blood through the body.

What is Circulatory System?

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The organ system that removes cellular wastes from the body.

What is excretory system?

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The organ system that breaks down food so that it can be absorbed into the bloodstream


What is digestive system?

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This system releases hormones into your body to change its activity. What is it?

What is endocrine system

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The set of organs that uses information from the senses to control other body systems.

What is a nervous system?

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The skeletal system is made up of what three things?

Bones, tendons, and ligaments

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The stomach breaks down partially digested food and empties it into the ___________.
small intestine
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Where is oxygen-rich blood pumped to after it reaches the heart?
All over the body
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As mammals, we use our lungs to breath in oxygen, what do fish use to pull oxygen out of the water they swim in?

 gills

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When your bladder gets full, what part of your body carries the urine from the bladder to the outside of the body?
the urethra
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The power to produce movement is provided by which system?

The muscular system

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The kidneys remove waste from the blood using millions of tiny filters called ___________.
Nephrons
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What muscle massages the food down into your stomach?

esophagus

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Which organism has an exoskeleton?

a. rabbit b. grasshopper c. dog  e. jellyfish

grasshopper

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What type of animals have a closed circulatory system, and which type of animals have an open circulatory system?
Vertebrates have a closed circulatory system and arthropods and other invertebrates have an open circulatory system.
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Fill in the blank: When a muscle _________ it pulls on the bone its attached to. When a muscle _________ it is not putting pressure on the bone it is attached to.
1- contracts 2- relaxes
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The _________reabsorbs water from the undigested food before the remaining solid waste is passed through to exit the body.
large intestine
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The brain, the spinal cord, nerves and sense organs are part of which organ system?

Nervous sytem

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What hormone increases the heart rate and sends extra blood to the muscles to make us move faster or be stronger than we normally are?
adrenaline
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Which two vital organs does the rib cage protect?
The lungs and heart
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Before an animal can move any muscle, what needs to happen first?
A message needs to be sent from the brain to the muscle.
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Besides using the bathroom, what is one other way in which the body excretes waste?
Sweating
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Through which system does your blood take in oxygen from the air?
the respiratory system
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This system allows you to see, hear, feel, taste, think, and move. What is it?
the nervous system
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When a rabbit needs to run from danger, how are the circulatory, respiratory, skeletal, muscular, and nervous systems put into use?
circulatory system pumps blood to the body, respiratory system allows the rabbit to breath in and out quickly, skeletal system allows the rabbit to stand upright and protect organs, muscular system allows the rabbit to move its legs quickly, and nervous system tells the body to move when it needs to.