Body system Flashcards
What is the circulatory system
Its the system that transports blood
What is the digestive system
It breaks down food, asorbs nutrients, and eliminates waste
What is the respitory system
Controls breathing
What is the immune system
It protects you’re body
What is the endocrione system
It produces hormones
What is the intergumentary system
Its you’re skin, hair, and nails
Whats is the skeletal system
It supports your muscles
What is the muscular system
It works with bones to help move body
What is the nervous system
It detects changes in the enviroment and alerts the body which the carries out a response
What is the order of living things
Cells, tissue, organ, system, organism
What are the 4 nutrients that you need
Carbs, fats, vitamens, protiens
What do carbs do
Carbs are a great source of energy
What do protiens do
They build your skin, hair, nails, and muscles
What do fats do
They build cell membrames
What do vitamens do
They help you’re body to do various functions.
Can you go longer without water or without food
Without food
What are the 4 stages of digestion
Ingesting,digesting,asorbing,eliminating
What do enzymes do
They help speed up the digestion progress
What is ingestion
Its when you put food in you’re mouth
What is digestion
You chew up the food and it becomes smaller so that it will be easier for it to go down in the esophogaus Saliva will get sprayed on the food as well to help it go down. The food will go down the esophagus which basically is a long muscular tube. It will then reach the stomach. The stomach is full of gastric juice which breaks down the food. The broken up food is then sent to the small intestine.
What is gastric juice
A type of acid in the stomach that breaks down food
What is asorbing
When the nutrients are at the end of the small intestine, they start to get absorbed. The small intestine is covered in villi which increases the surface area so it can take in more nutrients. It then goes to the large intestine which takes undigested material and reasorb the water and nutrients.
What is eliminating
Undigested material at this point is called feces. They get removed from the body from the anus.
What does the heart do
It pumps blood through your body
