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Science-Systems Sum.

Study Stack for the Human Body #1 Test

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Main Bones in body:... See Slides
Characteristics of bone and how they keep your body strong and healthy Bones are dense but slightly permeable and stuff:) idk Mrs. Savage is ConFuZiNg...Lol
Role that joints play in the body Joints allow you to move
Five functions of the Skeleton Your skeleton has five major functions. It provides shape and support. Enables you to move. Protects your organs. Produces blood cells. Stores minerals and other materials until your body needs them.
Cardiac Muscles______and an example is ___________ Make your heart pump, heart
Smooth Muscles______________ and an example is ________________ help organs, your organs
Skeletal muscles_____________ and an example is ____________ Move your bones, triceps
Types of muscles? Skeletal, Smooth, Cardiac
Functions of skin Covers and protects body from injury,infection, and water loss. Regulates temp, eliminates wastes, Gathers information about the environment, and produces vitamin d
Main Habits to keep skin healthy Healthful diet, keeping skin clean, limiting sun exposure
Main functions of nervous system Recieves info from inside and outside and inside the body, directs how your body responds to information, maintains homeostasis.
Kinds of neurons sensory neurons, interneurons, motor neurons
How do nerve impulses travel from one neuron to another? Chemicals carry a nerve impulse across a synapse and trigger another nerve impulse
Central nervous system Cerebellum, Cerebrum, Brain stem
Functions of central nervous system directs your body's response to things
Structures of peripheral nervous system nerves branching out in your body, autonomic nerves, somatic nerves
Autonomic nerves are involuntary
Somatic nerves are voluntary
The function of the peripheral nervous system is to receive stimuli
Two ways the nervous system can be injured is: Concussion, spinal cord injuries
How are you able to hear ? Sound enter your ear, which is a stimuli receptor, and it passes from the eardrum into the hammer, then thi anvil, then the stirrup,then into the cochlea, Vibrations in the cochlea transmit sound to the ear nerve which sends it to the braaaaaiin:)
and maintain balance? Liquid in your semicircular canals moves and causes its hairlike extensions to bend which creates a stimulus which goes to the brain and is processed and if you are of balance, your brain sends out nerve impulses to move your muscles back into balance
How does smell and taste work together? They both depend on chemicals in food or in the air
How is your skin related to your sense of touch? Your skin contains touch receptors that respond to many different stimuli.
The role of the endocrine system is... it produces chemicals that control many of the body's daily activities, and requlates growth and development.
How does the endocrine system control the body's processes it produces chemicals that control many of the body's daily activities, and requlates growth and development.
What is negative feedback? It is where the body creates what you need until you have enough of it, and then stops.
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