Skeletal & Muscular System
The organ system the supports and protects the body
What is the skeletal system?
This system is made up of your heart, blood and blood vessels
This system breaks down food we eat into nutrients that can be used as building materials that provide energy to cells
What is the digestive system?
The body's central command organ
What is the brain?
This is the body system mostly made of muscles and allows your body to move
What is the muscular system?
What are the ribs?
A blood vessel that carries blood back to the heart
What is a vein?
These are the two types of digestion
What are mechanical and chemical digestion?
The Central Nervous System (CNS) is comprised of these two structures
What is the brain and spinal cord?
The fluid that carries gases, nutrients, and wastes through the body
What is blood?
The hard outer layer of the bone
What is compact bone?
These are small lymphatic organs at the back of the throat and tongue
What are tonsils?
The three ways the body removes waste
What is to sweat, exhale and produce urine/feces?
This system controls the body functions and helps maintain homeostasis by using hormones
These bones protect the spinal cord
What are vertebrae?
The strong, flexible, and smooth connective tissue found at the end of bones
This problem that affects the cardiovascular systems causing abnormally high blood pressure
What is hypertension?
These are the tubes that connect the kidney to the bladder
What are the ureters?
Hormones from this gland control your metabolism
What is the thyroid?
The place where two or more bones connect
What is the joint?
These are the three types of muscles
What are smooth, cardiac and skeletal?
These are the four components of blood
What are the platelets, plasma, white blood cells and red blood cells?
This organ makes and releases a mixture called bile that is then stored in the gallbladder
What is the liver?
A cell that moves messages in fast-moving electrical energy
What is a neuron?
These neurons move messages from your brain and spinal cord to other parts of the body
What are motor neurons?