The Skeletal System
The hard white tissue that makes up the skeletal system.
Bone
The vehicle that transports food, chemicals, and oxygen to all parts of the body.
Blood
The part of the brain that governs the perception of balance and coordinates the voluntary muscles.
Cerebellum
When food is chemically broken down and dissolved into a form that can be used in the cells.
Digestion
Between each small vertebrae bone is a pad of tough, elastic tissue called ____.
Cartilage
Large tubes that transport blood throughout the body are called __________.
Veins
The part of the brain that governs the involuntary muscles used for digesting food, coughing or sneezing, breathing, pumping blood, etc.
Medulla
The digestive system begins with the ____.
Mouth
The human body has more than _____ bones.
200
Oxygen-rich blood flows from the heart to the body through thick tubes called _________.
Arteries
When nerve endings are stimulated in a sense organ, an electrical message is sent through ___________ _________ to the spinal cord and then the brain.
Sensory nerves
The substance found in the stomach that aids digestion is called _________.
Gastric Juices
The ribs protect the ____, _________, and _________.
Heart, lungs, and other chest organs.
The tubes that carry waste into larger tubes called veins that carry blood back to the heart are called _____.
Capillaries
When reflexive action is required, the brain bypasses the spinal cord to send a signal to the _________ ________.
Motor nerves
Non-digestible material passes through the _______.
Large Intestine
_______ _________ is stored inside the middle of the bones and is mainly composed of fat.
Yellow Marrow
Most numerous and give the blood its characteristic color. Carry oxygen from the lungs to the body’s cells and carbon dioxide from the cells back to the lungs.
Red blood cells
The part of the brain that governs the conscious, rational process, receives signals from the senses, and controls the body’s voluntary muscles.
Cerebrum
What works with digestive juices to break down food?
Enzymes