Body Systems
This system controls the body by sending and receiving signals.
What is the nervous system?
Sight is an example of this type of input.
What is electromagnetic input?
This is the smallest unit of all living things.
What are cells?
Frankie used this type of input when she smelled a rotten apple at the apple orchard.
What is chemical input?
The digestive system removes solid waste, but this system removes all liquid waste.
What is the excretory system?
These two body systems remove liquid waste from the body.
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What are the digestive and excretory systems?
These are the two senses that represent mechanical input.
+100 points per sense.
What is touch and hearing/sound?
The brain, spinal cord, and nerves working together as the nervous system would be an example of an ________.
What is an organ system?
Andrew was watching a scary movie when he jumped at the sight of a clown. Which part describes Andrew's response?
He jumped at the sight of the clown.
Vibrations entering through the skin and ears would relate to this type of input.
What is mechanical input?
This is the role of the circulatory system.
What is to pump blood through the body?
Taste and smell are two senses that represent this type of input.
What is chemical input?
This term best describes a change in the external environment that causes a reaction.
What is a stimulus?
Annie dropped the hot pan after she burned her hand. Which part of the sentence represents the stimulus?
Annie burned her hand.
These three systems work closely together to help you move your leg.
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What are the muscular, skeletal, and nervous systems?
This system helps provide a gas exchange between the blood and the air.
What is the respiratory system?
When you feel pain, the ______ send signals to and from the brain.
What are nerve cells or neurons?
This term describes a smaller system within a bigger system.
What is a subsystem?
The small intestine and the stomach working within the digestive system would be an example of this.
What is a subsystem?
Two cells in the same _____ would be the most similar.
What is a tissue?
This is the level of organization from smallest to largest for all living things.
____ >____ >____ >____ >____
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Cell > tissue > Organ > Organ system > organism
These are the sense organs
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What are the nose, mouth/tongue, ears, eyes, and skin?
This term describes a specialized cell that detects stimuli and sends it to nerve cells.
Hint: these are located in areas like the nose.
What is a sensory receptor?
Fill in the route for sensory input below:
You smell a flower > it enters your _____ in your nose > ____ carry it > the ____ receives it > a _____ is sent back and it is stored as a _______.
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You smell a flower > it enters your SENSORY RECEPTORS in your nose > NERVE CELLS carry it > the BRAIN receives it > a BEHAVIOR/RESPONSE is sent back and it is stored as a MEMORY.
The pupil of this organ will change based on the amount of light entering. Since this is an electromagnetic input, which organ would most likely contain the pupil?
The eye.