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Your Gross & Cool Body
Use the websites listed below each set of body systems to answer the following
questions.
Respiratory System
1.Why do we need to breathe?
2.What role does your diaphragm play in breathing?
3. What keeps food from going down our windpipe?
4. Spread out flat, about how much space would all the airsacs in the lungs of an
adult cover?
5. What role do red blood cells play in respiration?
6. Every minute about how much air do you breath in?
WEBSITES TO USE:
Body Systems: Respiratory System from the Franklin Institute
(http://www.fi.edu/learn/heart/systems/respiration.html)
The Yuckiest Site on the Internet: Your Respiratory System
(http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/body/pg000138.html)
Circulatory System
1. Where is the heart located in your body?
2. What does it do?
3. Explain how blood travels through your body.
4. What is the difference between veins and arteries?
5. What does each side of your heart do?
What does the following four parts of blood do?
red blood cells
white blood cells
plasma
platelets
7. How much blood is in the average adult's body?
8. What happens when you lose a small amount of blood?
9. Why are blood cells red? (Hint: Check under Red Blood Cells)
WEBSITES TO USE:
THE HEART (http://ahealthyme.epnet.com/GetContent.aspx?token=c0a17ee7-27984d59-b6b4-743fc6002965)
http://www.medtropolis.com/VBody.asp
(http://www.medtropolis.com/VBody.asp)
KLB SCHOOLSCIENCE PAGE
(http://www.klbict.co.uk/interactive/science/skeleton.htm)
THE HUMAN HEART -FRANKLIN INSTITUTE
(http://www.fi.edu/learn/heart/blood/red.html)
Digestive System
1. What are the two main parts where foods are broken apart so that our bodies can
use the food's nutrients?
2. How long does it take for your body to digest food?
3. When you swallow, what keeps food from going down your windpipe?
4. What letter is your stomach shaped like?
5. What might make a person throw up? In other words, why would a stomach
empty out its contents?
6. About how big around and long is the small intestine?
7. List the important functions of your liver.
8. About how big around and long is your large intestine?
WEBSITES TO USE:
The Real Deal on the Digestive System
(http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/digestive_system.html)
Skeletal System
1. What are the purposes of the skeletal system?
2. What is the tough, smooth, shiny substance called that is at the end of each
bone?
3. What keeps our bones from scratching and bumping against each other when we
move?
4. What are the long stretchy bands that hold our bones together?
5. What mineral do bones store?
6. What are the ring-shaped bones that are part of the spine?
7. How many bones do humans have?
8. What are the 2 types of bone? What is the difference between the two?
9. What is at the center of bones? What is its purpose?
10. What are bones made of?
11. Are your bones alive? What do bone cells depend on to keep them alive?
WEBSITES TO USE:
The Skeletal System (questions 1-4)
(http://www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/biology/humananatomy/skeletal/skeletalsystem.html
)
Your Gross and Cool Body: Skeletal System
(http://yucky.discovery.com/noflash/body/pg000124.html)
Inside A Bone (http://library.thinkquest.org/5777/ske8.htm)
The Big Story on Bones(http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/bones.html)
Nervous System
1. What is your nervous system?
2. What are the names of the two divisions of the nervous system?
3. What are nerves and what do they do?
4. What are neurons?
5. How do nerves pass along messages?
WEBSITES TO USE:
Get Body Smart: Nervous System Organization (click on 'tutorial' and
'review')[http://www.getbodysmart.com/ap/nervoussystem/organization/general/tutori
al.html]
The Yuckiest Site on the Internet: Your Brain (
http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/body/pg000135.html)
Neuroscience for Kids: Lobes of the Brain
(http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/lobe.html)
Kid's Health: Your Brain
(http://kidshealth.org/PageManager.jsp?dn=KidsHealth&lic=1&article_set=54030&ca
t_id=20682& )
Muscular System
1. What are involuntary muscles? How do they work? Give an example of an
involuntary muscle.
2. What are voluntary muscles? How do they work? Give an example of a
voluntary muscle.
3. Can a muscle be both voluntary and involuntary? Explain.
4. Describe muscle fibers. How do they work?
5. What are the two ways that muscles can become stronger? Explain.
6. What are the 3 types of muscles and what do they do?
7. What are tendons and what do they look like?
8.What do muscles do?
9. Do you have lots of muscles? Explain.
10. How do muscles move?
11. Can you hurt muscles? How?
12. What are the busiest muscles in the body?
WEBSITES TO USE:
Science Out of this World
(http://www.spacesciencegroup.org/sootw/default.asp?theme=humanbody&pagename
=muscular#
Muscles of the Human Body
(http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/Science/HumanBody/BodyMuscles.htm)
Muscular System (http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/body/pg000123.html)
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