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Body Systems
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Integumentary system | Hair, skin, fingernails, toenails. Protection of the body from drying out, controls temp |
| The skeletal system | Bone, cartilage, joint. Support for the body, allows movement and protects the brain and other major organs. |
| The muscular system | Muscle, muscle tissue. Helps us to move, move things around the body e.g blood |
| The nervous system | Brain, spinal cord, nerve. Transmitting sensory information, processing information and causing bodily responses |
| The endocrine system | Glands/tissue, thyroid gland, pancreas, ovary and testis. Produces hormones, travels through blood, target cells respond to the message |
| The cardiovascular system | Heart, blood vessel-artery, veins. Blood transports many substances (oxygen, hormones), regulates temp and pH level |
| The lymphatic/immune system | Tonsil, thymus, spleen, lymph node. Drains all the fluid from blood capillaries/ tissues cells and returns it into the blood |
| The respiratory system | Pharynx, Larynx (voice box), bronchus, lungs. Carries out gas exchange between the blood and the air, regulates blood pH, allows us to speak and smell |
| The digestive system | mouth, salivary glands, stomach, pancreas, large/small intestine, Anus. Breaks larger food into smaller bits. Absorbs the products of digestion and processes them. |
| The excretory system | kidneys, ureter, bladder, urethra. Produces, stores and eliminates waste from the body. |
| The reproductive system | testes, ovaries and other associated organs. Makes babies, combines genes from both parent |