Body Systems
Vocabulary
Biomedical Engineering
Blood Flow
The Body's Teamwork
100

What body system breaks down food into nutrients your body can absorb?

What is the digestive system?

100

A type of engineer who uses technology, math, and knowledge of living systems to solve medical or biological problems.

What is a biomedical engineer?

100

What's the first step of the engineering design process?

What is identify the problem?

100

Daily Double: Name the four chambers of the heart.

What are the right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle?

100

Daily Double: What two systems work together when the brain controls your breathing rate?

What are the nervous and respiratory systems?

200

What system removes waste from the body through the kidneys and bladder?

What is the excretory system?

200

To make better or as good as you can.

What is to optimize?

200

What step comes after brainstorming a solution?

What is design?

200

Which chamber does blood enter after it leaves the lungs full of oxygen

What is the left atrium?

200

What two systems work together when the brain controls your heart rate and blood pressure?

What are the nervous and circulatory systems?

300

Which system helps you breathe by bringing oxygen into the body?

What is the respiratory system?

300

Daily Double: A minimum requirement for how the design must function.

What is criterion?

300

Which step comes after you build your solution?

What is test and evaluate?

300

What kind of blood vessel carries blood away from the heart?

What is an artery?

300

Which two systems work together when the lungs give oxygen to the blood?

What are the respiratory and circulatory systems?

400

Which body system sends signals through the body to control actions and thoughts?

What is the nervous system?

400

Something that limits or restricts the design.

What is a constraint?

400

If your first design doesn’t work, what do you do next?

What is redesign?

400

What kind of blood vessel carries blood towards the heart?

What is a vein?

400

How does the nervous system help the respiratory system work properly?

It sends signals to control your breathing rate.

500

Name all three nutrients your body uses for energy.

What are proteins, carbohydrates, and fats?

500

The process where your lungs add oxygen to your blood.

What is oxygenation?

500

What’s the final step of the engineering design process?

What is share the solution?

500

What tiny blood vessels connect arteries and veins?

What are capillaries?

500

Explain how the circulatory and respiratory systems work together to deliver oxygen throughout the body.

The lungs oxygenate the blood, and the heart pumps the oxygen-rich blood to the rest of the body.