Body systems

• What is also know as the cardiovascular system


  The circulatory system
• The digestive system breaks down food into nutrients that can be absorbed by cells
• The endocrine system controls body functions through hormones
• The excretory system removes waste products from the blood and eliminates them from the body
• The nervous system controls the other systems and enables humans to interact with one another and their environment
• The reproductive systems is the system were offspring occurs
• The Excretory system removes wastes from the blood and controls the amount of water in our body
• the musculoskeletal system is responsible for movement
• The circulatory system removes wastes from cells and carries oxygen,nutrients and water to all cells
• The respiratory system brings air into the lungs where it can be exchanged with carbon dioxide
• A body system is a group of organs that work together to preform a specific function that is known as a body system
• What are the levels of organization
• Organ level- made up of different types of tissues working together to form an organ
• Multicellular organisms have specialized cells that are arranged to make body systems
• The systems in our body work together to make sure that all cells in the organisms receive their requirments
• A body system is one of the levels of organization
• The importance of having balance in a biological system is when a disease affects a body system it prevents the system from fulfilling its function.
• The consequence of not having a balance in body systems is that the needs of the body cells are not able to meet efficiently and the organism will suffer
• Another word for function is job
• The nervous system transports electrical messages around the body
• the site of gas exchange occurs the respiratory system
• The musculoskeletal system protects internal organs and gives the body shape
• The Excretory system removes waste products such as urine from the body
• The endocrine system produces hormones that are released directly into the bloodstream
• The digestive system breaks down food to release energy
• The reproductive system allows organisms to reproduce
• The immune system fights infections in our body such as diseases and viruses
• The respiratory system takes oxygen into the body and releases carbon dioxide out of the body