2. Body Systems Test Review

3. The post office carries and delivers packages to homes and businesses. Which body system is the post office most like?

4. Answer: The Circulatory System

5. What body system exchanges carbon dioxide in the lungs and supplies oxygen to the blood?

6. Answer Respiratory system

7. 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

8. Answer The heart will pump harder because it must force blood through a smaller space.

9. Why does your heart rate increase during exercise?

10. Answer: Your cells need more oxygen to produce energy

11. Which body system produces chemical messengers called hormones that controls things like development and growth in the body?

12. Answer The endocrine system

13. The human body systems work together to maintain overall balance in the human body. What is this balance in the body called?

14. Answer Homeostasis

15. Which body system is the control center by communicating information using electrical signals from the brain?

16. Answer Nervous system

17. The main function of the digestive system is to---

18. Answer The digestive system breaks down food to usable nutrients. The bloodstream takes these nutrients to the cells.

19. The endocrine system uses glands to communicate with other body parts by using chemical___________.

20. Answer Hormones

21. Which body system includes the layers of skin that function to protects the inside of our body from germs and disease?

22. Answer Integumentary System

23. Which body system is responsible for filtering, collecting and removing waste from the bloodstream?

24. Answer Excretory system

25. This body system allows body to move and provides strength, balance, and warmth.

26. Answer Muscular system

27. This body system holds organs in place, provides structural, support, stores minerals, and generates new blood cells.

28. Answer Skeletal system

29. This body system is used by male and female systems used to produce offspring (children)

30. Answer Reproductive system