The human body Flashcards
What is a heart?
The organ that pumps blood around your body.
What is an artery?
A blood vessel that takes food and oxygen to your cells.
What is a body organ?
A special part of the body that you could not function without.
What does the brain do?
The organ that controls senses muscles and organs.
Digestive system definition?
A series of organs that breaks down food.
What does respire mean?
When your body turns good into energy.
What is our skeleton?
206 bones that support our body.
What is a pulse rate?
The number of times your heart beaters in 1 minute.
What does a liver do?
It makes food into energy.
What do lungs do?
Lungs let you breath.
What is a kidney?
They filter waste out of your blood and are found on either side of you spine.
What does the stomach do?
It lets you digest food.
What do the large intestine and small intestine do?
They are connected and help you digest food coming from the stomach.
What does a spleen do?
It creates and removes blood cells.
What main negatives were there to smoking?
You die quicker, it’s harder to breath and higher risks of lung cancer.
