Pausing Point - Human Body

What is the largest body organ?

• skin

• lungs

• heart

What system is responsible for circulating, or moving, blood to all other systems?

• digestive system

• muscular system

• circulatory system

What instrument is used to view microscopic organisms?

• telescope

• microscope

• hand lenses

Which system is responsible for carrying oxygen to your lungs so that you can respire, or breathe?

• digestive system

• respiratory system

• muscular system

What sense works with your sense of taste to make eating pleasurable for you?

• sense of touch

• sense of sights

• sense of smell

What is one of the body's building blocks, the smallest unit of life that can carry out functions of living things?

• cells

• tissues

• organs

What is a curved piece of glass used to magnify objects o a microscope?

• eyepiece

• lens

• tube

What is the softest and most abundant tissue in the human body?

• muscle tissue

• nervous tissue

• connective tissue

What did Anton van Leeuwnhoek discover when looking at water through a microscope , a tiny one-celled organism?

• cells

• bacteria

• tissue

What is made up of body tissues, groups of similar cells?

• cell

• tissue

• organ