Skeletal System
What is the scientific word for the name of your skull?
Cranium
What is the name of the organ that helps your lungs to work?
Diaphragm
The heart
What are the names of your blood cells?
Red Blood cells and White Blood cells
These bones protect your heart and lungs.
Ribs
What is special about the small intestine?
It is where digestion takes place in the body.
The oxygen and carbon dioxide pass through the thin walls of ____________
air sacs
What is the purpose of a tendon?
to attach muscles to bones
What does artery mean?
blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart
What are the bones in your fingers and toe called?
Phalanges
What is the first step of digestion?
Chewing of your food to be swallowed.
What does the respiratory system mean?
organs that work together to take air into the body and push it back out
What is the meaning of the muscular system?
body system made of muscle that makes body parts move
What is the meaning of the skeletal system?
body system that gives the body its shape, protects the organs inside the body, and works with the muscles to move the body
What is the name of the organ that pushes food toward the stomach?
Esophagus
What is the name of the tube that takes air down to your lungs?
Trachea
What does voluntary mean?
a person has to think about moving these muscles
What is the name of the major organ that is part of circulatory system?
Heart
What is the piece of bone that holds the ribs together?
Sternum
Which organ is longer; the small intestine or the long intestine?
Small intestine
What is the name of the major organ used in your respiratory system?
Lungs
What does involuntary mean?
muscles that do not require a person to think
Why is the heart an important organ?
It carries blood to every part of the body