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| Function: Protects your body from disease. How you develop immunity: After you've been exposed to the illness, your body recognizes the substand and your white blood cells destroy it. |
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| Structures: red and white blood cells, platelets, plasma, artery, capillary. Functions: Carry oxygen-rich blood to vital organs. Takes carbon dioxide away. |
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| Structures: Lungs, Aveoli, trachea. Functions: Filter the air we breathe, take out dirt, controls breathing. |
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| Structures: kidney, ureters, bladder, urethra. Functions: Filters blood to remove waste. |
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| 3 muscle types: Smooth (wall of your internal organs); Cardiac (heart); Skeletal (Biceips, triceps, legs. Moves your body, pumps your blood, moves material. |
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| Structures: Epithelial, connective, muscle and nervous. Two layers: Dermis and Epidermis. This controls your temperature, produces vitamins and protects tissue. |
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| Structure: 206 bones. Axial: Skull and the bones that support it. Appendicular: Bones in arms and legs. Provides framework for you body. Produces blood cells and stores minerals. |
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| Structures: Mouth, esphogaus, stomach, liver, pancreas, intestines, appendix, rectum, anus. Functions: Breaks down food, uses it as energy, moves food along the tract. Absorbs nutrients. |
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| helps body fight against disease; Maintains homeostasis - keeps body fluids at a constant level. |
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| Structures: nucleus, cell body, dendrites, axon, myelin. Organization: Central Nervous System & Peripheral Nervous System. Functions: Controls organis in time of stress and at sleeping. |
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| Endocrine glands. Negative Feedback Loop: Low blood sugar is detected, hypothalamus stimulates pituitary to release HgH; HGH stimulates liver to convert glycogen into glucose. Controls hormones, water levels. |
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