Human Body Systems Quiz

The respiratory system has important functions. What two jobs does the respiratory system perform?

• Brings oxygen into your body

• Gets rid of carbon dioxide

• Circulates blood through your body

• Provides shape for your body

What structures make up the respiratory system?

• Helps you breathe in oxygen and get rid of carbon dioxide.

• nose, mouth, lung, diaphragm

• heart, veins, arteries

What muscle flattens when you breathe in?

• Lungs

• Cilia

• Diaphragm

• Bronchial Tube

The skeletal system has important functions. What is one of its jobs?

• helps our body take in oxygen and get rid of carbon dioxide

• carries messages through your spinal cord to your brain

• gets nutrients out of the food you eat

• Protects your organs and gives your body shape

What is made in bones?

• Tendons

• Blood (Marrow)

• Muscles

• Joints

The nervous system has an important function. What is the job of the nervous system?

• carries blood and nutrients throughout the body

• helps our body take in oxygen and get rid of carbon dioxide

• sends signals and messages throughout your entire body

• provides shape to our bodies

What are the parts of the human body included in the nervous system?

• mouth, nose, diaphragm, lungs

• mouth, stomach, small intestine

• blood, vein, arteries, heart

• nerves, spinal cord, brain

Your digestive system has an important function. What is the job of the digestive system?

• gets nutrients out of the food you eat

• carries blood all over your body

• brings oxygen into your body and removes carbon dioxide out

• carries messages through your spinal cord to your brain

Digestion starts in your _________ with the aid of__________(spit)

• stomach, stomach acid

• mouth, saliva

• small intestine, stomach muscles

• esophagus, tongue

The job of the small intestine is to _________and the large intestine is to _________.

• break down food; get rid of food

• soak up vitamins and nutrients; take care of waste leftover from food