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Title: Health
Description: Health, Chapter 6. It deals with the Body Systems
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Created: 2002-01-28
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    • Side 3
    • joints
    • places where one bone meets another
    • kidneys
    • a filtering system for the blood.
    • Respiratory system
    • To carry oxygen to cells.
      To removecarbon dioxide from blood
    • skeletal and muscular systems
    • To support and move teh body
      To protect organs
    • Digestive ans excretory systems
    • To break down food for energy.
      To get rid of wastes
    • interrelated
    • the systems work together and are dependent on one another
    • brain
    • your nervous system's command center
    • centeral nervous system
    • consists of the brain and spinal cord
    • 3 ways to keep your Nervous System Healthy
    • 1. get enough sleep and eat properly
      2. Avoid alcohol and other drugs.
      3. Take care of your heart and blood vessels.
    • Arteries
    • carry oxygen-rich blood away from the heart
    • Plasma
    • transport dissolved food and blood cells
    • platekets
    • help you blood clot. keeps you from losing too much blood when you have a cut.
    • lungs
    • main organs of the respiratory system
    • bronchi
    • two branches of the trachea
    • cartilage
    • connecting tissue that covers the ends of bones and supprts certain structures.
    • Digestion
    • the process of breaking down food into a from the body can use.
    • excretion
    • the process of removing liquid wastes from the body
    • Nervous system
    • sends and receives messages
      see, hear, smell. taste, touch
      controls all body systems
    • white blood cells
    • destroy disease germs that enter the body.
    • Circulatory system
    • To bring food and oxygen to cells
      To take waste away from cells
    • spinal cord
    • tube of neurons that run up the spine
    • neurons
    • cells that make up teh nervous system
    • Capillaries
    • tiny brances of arteries and veins
    • veins
    • carry oxygen-poor blood toward the heart
    • trachea
    • windpipe
    • Keeping your Circulatory system Healthy
    • 1. Eat a balanced diet
      2. Avoid stress
      3. Exercise
      4. Try to maintain you ideal weight
      5. Don't smoke
    • ligaments
    • hold bones and joints together
    • Kepping your Respiratory System Healthy
    • 1. Exercise
      2. Breathe clean air
      3. Don't smoke
      4.Breathe deeply
      5. Use good posture
    • diaphragm
    • muscle at the bottom of the chest
    • Keeping your Bones and Muscles Healthy
    • 1. Eat a balanced diet
      2. Exercise safely
      3. Have good posture
      4. Get enough rest
    • Tendons
    • connects bone to muscles
    • Keeping your Digestive and Excretory System Healthy
    • 1. Ear a balanced diet.
      2. Eat regular meals at regular times.
      3. Chew food slowly.
      4. Drink water
    • Red blood cells
    • carry oxygen to all other cells of the body and carry away some waste products