Directional terms and organ systems

Integumentary system

• Produces gametes

• supports an organism, hold organism upright

• Breaks down food and nutrients

• Outer covering of the body, provides protection

Skeletal System

• Filters metabolic waster

• Supports, protects and holds organism upright

• Voluntary and involuntary movement

• Ultimately controls all other processes in the body

Voluntary and involuntary movement is a function of what system?

• Muscular

• Endocrine

• Digestive

• Nervous

What is the function of the Nervous system?

• Production of gametes

• Controls all the other systems in the body

• Break down food for nutrients

• Immune system and protects against germs

Endocrine system

• Production of gametes

• secretes hormones to regulate other processes

• break down of food and nutrients

• transport of oxygen to tissues and organs.

What system transports oxygen to tissues and organs; picks up CO2 and waste gas

• Skeletal system

• Muscular system

• Nervous system

• Circulatory system

Lymphatic system

• Filters metabolic wastes from blood

• Supports, protects and holds organisms upright

• Immune system; protection from germs

• ultimately controls all other systems

What system breaks down food for nutrients?

• Digestive system

• Respiratory system

• Urinary system

• Reproductive system

Respiratory system:

• Outer covering; protection, insulation, body temperature regulation

• Transport oxygen to tissues and organs; picks up carbon dioxide waste gas

• Take in oxygen and release carbon dioxide

• Filters metabolic wastes from blood

What system filters the blood for metabolic wastes?

• Nervous system

• Lymphatic system

• Integumentary system

• Urinary system