Question | Answer |
What is a tissue? | large group of similar specialized cells |
What is an organ? | a group of related tissues that perform a specific function |
Organs are formed from what? | cells |
Organs are organized into what? | organ systems |
What are organ systems? | related orans that work together to perform a specific function |
When organ systems comn=bine, what do they form? | entire organism |
What is the circulatory system responsible for? | bringing oxygen and nutrients to all cells and take carbon dioxide and wastes away from the cells |
What are the main parts of the circulatory system? | heart, arteries, veins, and capillaries |
what do the main parts of the circulatory system do? | arteries carry the blood away from the heart, veins carry blood to the heart, and capiallaries conects arteries and veins |
What is the respitory system responsible for? | bringing oxygen to the blood |
what are the main parts of the respitory system? | bronchial tube, lungs, alveoli, and diaphragm |
what do the main parts of the respitory system do? | alveoli transfers oxygen to surrounding cappillaries, capillaries give alveoli carbon dioxide, diaphragm pulls downward to create more room in chest when you inhale and does the opposite when you exhale |
What is the digestive system responsible for? | breaking down food into simpler substances |
What are the main parts of the digestive system? | salivary glands, esophogus, stomach, liver, pancreus, and small and large intestine |
what do the main parts of the digestive system do? | esophogus lets the broken down fod from the mouth to go through to the stomach, stomach breaks down food even more, small intestine lets the broken down food go though to the liver and pancreus, liver and pancreus break up the food even more and lets them |
what are villi and what system are they apart of? | fingerlike projections in the digestive system |
what is the nervous system responsible for? | recieving and processing information and controls how the body reacts and moves |
what are the main parts of the nervous system? | eyes, brain, and spinal chord |
what are neurons? | send information to different parts of your body |
what do the main parts of the nervous system do? | brain made up of lot of neurons that work together to make you think, remember, interpret info, and control body, spinal chord mass of nerves connected to the brain that sends info out to the rest of your body |
what is the muscle and skeletal systems responsible for? | muscular allows you to do many things and the skeletal provides shape, support, and protects the organs |
what do muscle tissues do? | controls you breathing, blood pressure, and digestive functions |
what is a cardiac muscle? | found only in the heart and involuntary |
what are skeletal muscles? | attatched to bones and voluntary |
What are bones held together by? | ligaments |
what are bones attatched to muscles by? | tendons |