Body Defenses

SKIN

• Attacks germs that are in the body

• Protects the body by providing a barrier between the environment and the inside of the body

• protects the body by trapping germs before they get into the body

Define the Immune System.

• The system in the body responsible for identifying and fighting off unwanted germ, and other bugs.

• The lines of defense your body uses to keep you healthy.

• The system in the body responsible for identifying and fighting off unwanted bacteria, viruses, and other bugs.

• Nonspecific defenses, as they don’t target specific invaders or germs.

Simply act as a barrier to keep foreign bodies from entering our system.

• Defenses

• Nonspecific defenses

• Skin

• Specific deefenses

This is a defenses that effect the white blood cells, which target specific germs that enter the body.

• Nonspecific defenses

• Defenses

• Specific defenses

• White blood cell

Select the all answer that pertain to the white blood cells.

• Fight and destroy germs that enter the body.

• Several types of white blood cells, each with a specific job.

• Produced in the bone marrow of our long bones and in the thymus.

• Move quickly to find and destroy any unwanted invaders in the body.

• Remember and recognize specific germs that have been in the body before and quickly destroy them.

The network of cells, tissues, and organs that all work together to keep the body healthy and fight infection.

• Skin

• Mucus

• Immue System

• Immue

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The immune system helps protect our body in two ways and protect itself from illness.

• Nerve System

• Human body

• Blocks invaders from entering the body.

• Destroys and removes germs if they do make it inside the body.

Sweat glands in the skin produce sweat that helps wash away germs on the skin's surface.

• Lymph Glands

• Skin

• Tonsils

• Cilia

They trap and destroy invading germs before they can get any further into the body.

• Viruses

• Tonsils

• Lymph glands

• Mucus

• Germs

Nodes are small, round structures found throughour the body, such as in the neck.

• Mucus

• Cilia

• Tonsils

• Lymph Glands