Animal Systems Vocab

System consisting of the skin and its associated structures, such as the hair, nails, sweat glands, and sebaceous glands.

• excretory

• integumentary

• endocrine

• digestive

Supports the body; protects internal organs; allows movement; stores mineral reserves; provides a site for blood cell formation

• integumentary

• muscular

• skeletal

• nervous

Works with skeletal system to produce voluntary movement; helps to circulate blood and move food through the digestive system

• circulatory

• respiratory

• endocrine

• muscular

Brings oxygen, nutrients, and hormones to cells; fights infection; removes cell waste; helps to regulate body temperature

• respiratory

• circulatory

• excretory

• integumentary

A system of glands, each of which secretes a type of hormone into the bloodstream to regulate the body

• integumentary

• excretory

• endocrine

• digestive

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Recognizes and coordinates the body's response to changes in its internal and external environments

• endocrine

• nervous

• circulatory

• respiratory

Converts foods into simpler molecules that can be used by the cells of the body; absorbs food; eliminates wastes

• circulatory

• excretory

• respiratory

• digestive

System that produces reproductive cells; in females, nurtures and protects developing embryo

• integumentary

• gamete

• reproductive

• muscular

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Helps protect the body from disease; collects fluid lost from blood vessels and returns the fluid to the circulatory system

• endocrine

• lymphatic

• respiratory

• exocrine

Eliminates waste products from the body in order to maintain homeostasis

• respiratory

• excretory

• integumentary

• digestive