Body Systems Vocabulary

A grouping of different tissues into one structure that performs a specific function

• Organ

• Pancreas

• Human body

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True or false: the nervous system controls all activities and functions of the body.

• True

• False

The _____________ is an organ that controls all other organs and systems in the body.

• nervous system

• heart

• brain

• circulatory system

___________ organs give information to your brain about your surroundings.

• Nervous System

• Brain

• Sensory

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Check all of your sensory organs.

• Skin

• Ears

• Feet

• Kidney

• Tongue

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Your _____________ system moves blood throughout your entire body. Blood starts in your heart and then goes back.

• skeletal

• nervous

• circulatory

• digestive

___________ is a muscle-powered pump that moves blood throughout the body.

• Heart

• Brain

• Kidney

• Stomach

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The job of this system is to help organisms breathe.

• nervous

• lungs

• circulatory

• respiratory

What is your digestive system?

• a muscle-powered pump

• a group of organs that break down food into nutrients for the body to use

• a digestive juice

• an organ that extracts proteins and nutrients from broken down food

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What does the small intestine do?

• Hold remaining food until they eliminated from the body

• Extract proteins and nutrients from broken down food

• Use its digestive juices to break down food into nutrients

• Chew food into tiny pieces