medical practitioner part 1

The purpose of the ____________ system is turn the food you eat into something useful for the body.

• Respiratory

• Circulatory

• Digestive

• Integumentary

The system containing the hair, skin, nails and exocrine glands.

It acts as a barrier against disease, as a temperature regulation system and as a waterproofing system to prevent dehydration.

• Nervous System

• Circulatory System

• Integumentary System

• Digestive System

What body system removes the waste from your body? 

• Circulatory

• Excretory

• Muscular

• Respiratory

Lungs

• Small blood vessels where materials are exchanged between the blood and the body’s cells (oxygen and carbon dioxide)

• Where the exchange of gas occurs. Oxygen enters and carbon dioxide exits.

• Muscular tube connecting the mouth to the stomach

• Force pathogens out of the body

Neurons

• Attached to bone and move bones using tendons

• Water absorbed into the bloodstream, remaining material is readied for elimination from the body.

• Produce chemical called antibodies to destroy pathogens 

• Nerve cell specialized to transfer messages in the form of fast-moving electrical energy 

Large dome-shaped muscle used in breathing

• Diaphragm

• Heart

• Kidney

• Smooth Muscles

Mucus and Cilia

• White blood cells that engulf and destroy pathogens

• Waste material is compressed into solid form

• Trap and remove pathogens that enter the respiratory system

•  Mechanical and chemical digestion start here

Sneezing and coughing

• is bad for you.

• forces pathogens out of your body.

• destroys pathogens using antibodies.

• is gross.

Which body system protects the organs of the body?

• digestive

• respiratory

• skeletal

• muscular

This system is the body's defense against attack.

• endocrine
• excretory
• muscular
• immune