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Organ Systems
Organ Systems(CMS Ms. White)
Question | Answer |
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What are the three types of neurons in the nervous system? | sensory, motor, interneurons |
What is the largest organ in the human body? | skin |
The Immune System is also know as what human body system? | lymphatic |
What are two types of bones? | Compact-hard and spongy |
What is the main organ in the respiratory system? | lungs |
What are the three layers of skin called? | epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis |
What system is responsible for transporting materials from one part of the body to another? | circulatory |
What system controls our sense organs? | nervous |
Why are muscle cells called fibers? | they are long and narrow |
What system is responsible for supplying oxygen to all the cells of the body and removing carbon dioxide? | respiratory |
Waste is excreted by what system? | digestive |
What is the framework of the body? | skeletal |
Which system is responsible for the collection and elimination of waste? | excretory |
What system causes movement of skeletal parts, locomotion, pumping blood and moving internal material? | muscular |
What system is responsible for regulating the bodies chemistry and many body functions? | endocrine |
What are three types of muscles? | skeletal muscles, cardiac muscles, smooth muscles |
you control movements | voluntary |
movement occurs own its own | involuntary |
What are the two subsystems of the circulatory system? | cardiovascular and lymphatic |
Which circulatory subsystem includes the heart and pumps blood through the body through blood vessels | Cardiovascular |
Which circulatory subsystem helps preserve fluid balance and protects the body against disease? | Lymphatic |
taking food into the mouth, chewing, and swallowing | ingestion |
breakdown of food into smaller pieces | digestion |
transfer of digested food through the wall of the intestine and into the circulatory system | absorption |
removal of undigested and unabsorbed food from the body | elimination |