Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Body Systems
- Respiratory - supplies
blood with oxygen
- Diaphragm - contracts
and relaxes to open and
close lungs
- Lungs - container
for air
- Contains bronchi,
bronchioles, and alvioli
- Trachea - passage that leads
from mouth/nose to lungs
- Circulatory - circulates
blood through body
- Veins - carry
oxygen poor blood
back to heart
- Arteries - carry oxygen
rich blood away from the
heart
- Capillaries - perform gas
exchange between blood and
tissue
- Heart - pump that
circulates blood through the
body
- Skeletal - provides
structure, protection for
organs, and stores calcium
- Five shapes
of bones
- Long bones
- Short bones
- Flat bones
- Irregular bones
- Sesamoid bones
- Nervous -
internal
communication
system using
electrical
signals
- Neurons
- Sensory - signals from
outside stmuli
- Motor - takes brain info
and turns it into muscle
movement
- Central nervous
system - body's
main processing
unit - brain and
spinal cord
- Peripheral nervous system - muscles,
internal organs, glands
- Endocrine - glandular
system that releases
hormones for important
bodily functions
- Pituitary gland - in
charge of many
important hormones,
including growth
- Thyroid - controls
metabolism
- Adrenal glands - regulate
blood sugar and burning
of proteins
- Testes - produce
testosterone
- Ovaries - produce
estrogen
- Sensory - senses the
outer environment
- Sight - eyes
- Sound - ears
- Smell - nose
- Taste - tongue
- Touch - nerves
- Nerves are present on almost
every part of the body, and
can sense pressure,
temperature, and pain
- Sensory receptors send signal
to brain which interprets the
senses
- Digestive - breaks down
food for nutrients for the
body, then excretes the
waste
- Esophagus - pushes
food into stomach
- Stomach - sack that
food sits in to be broken
down by acids
- Jaws - physically breaks
down food by chewing
- Pancreas - secretes bile to
break down fats
- Small intestine - absorbs
nutrients from food
- Large intestine -
where stool is stored
before excretion
- Anus - where stool
exits the body
- Urinary - removes liquid
waste from blood
- Bladder - sack that
stores urine
- Kidneys - filter the blood
- Urethra - carries urine
outside of the body
- Ureters - carry urine from
the kidneys to the bladder
- Integumentary - protects
body from surroundings
- Epidermis - top
layer of skin,
protects and
waterproofs
- Dermis - second layer,
contains nerves and blood
vessels
- Hypodermis -
bottom layer of
skin
- Lymphatic/immune -
removes pathogens from
blood, produces white
blood cells
- Lymph - removes wastes between cells
and destroys harmful bacteria and
pathogens present in tissue
- Lymphatic vessels -
transports lymph
- Lymph nodes - stores
immunity cells and traps
pathogens