Body Systems Test Review
The post office carries and delivers packages to homes and businesses. Which body system is the post office most like?
Answer: The Circulatory System
What body system exchanges carbon dioxide in the lungs and supplies oxygen to the blood?
Answer Respiratory system
Joes eats lots of greasy foods and doesn’t exercise much. Because of this he clogs his arteries causing a condition known as atherosclerosis. Explain why Joe will have high blood pressure. Clogged artery
Answer The heart will pump harder because it must force blood through a smaller space.
Why does your heart rate increase during exercise?
Answer: Your cells need more oxygen to produce energy
Which body system produces chemical messengers called hormones that controls things like development and growth in the body?
Answer The endocrine system
The human body systems work together to maintain overall balance in the human body. What is this balance in the body called?
Answer Homeostasis
Which body system is the control center by communicating information using electrical signals from the brain?
Answer Nervous system
The main function of the digestive system is to---
Answer The digestive system breaks down food to usable nutrients. The bloodstream takes these nutrients to the cells.
The endocrine system uses glands to communicate with other body parts by using chemical___________.
Answer Hormones
Which body system includes the layers of skin that function to protects the inside of our body from germs and disease?
Answer Integumentary System
Which body system is responsible for filtering, collecting and removing waste from the bloodstream?
Answer Excretory system
This body system allows body to move and provides strength, balance, and warmth.
Answer Muscular system
This body system holds organs in place, provides structural, support, stores minerals, and generates new blood cells.
Answer Skeletal system
This body system is used by male and female systems used to produce offspring (children)
Answer Reproductive system