Human Body Systems Technology Project Human Body Systems

Human Body Systems Technology Project

Human Body Systems • • • Digestive Respiratory Integumentary Immune Lymphatic Muscular Circulatory Skeletal Nervous Endocrine Excretory Reproductive And Levels of Organization

http: //www. parentingpress. com/pics/sock_cvr. jpg Believe it or not, you are organized! The main levels of organization are… Cells, Tissues, Organ Systems, and You (the Organism).

Well, at least your body is! Can you identify & label the 3 levels of organization shown here?

By the way, is your room “organized” like this!? !?

Your Digestive System

Your digestive system is like a complicated chemical processing plant, and performs many functions.

What major tasks does your digestive system help you accomplish?

Your Digestive System… …breaks down food into molecules the body can absorb. …passes these molecules into the blood to be carried throughout the body. …works to eliminate solid wastes from the body.

The Parts of Your Digestive System How well do you know them?

Parts of Your Digestive System

The Digestive Journey Digestion begins in your mouth with action of your teeth and tongue (mechanical digestion) and your salivary glands (chemical digestion). The salivary glands produce enzymes that are mixed with the food, breaking down the starches. Peristalsis is the muscular action that moves the food through the esophagus and into your stomach after you swallow.

Your Stomach Contains chemicals such as hydrochloric acid and pepsin. Pepsin breaks proteins, and other enzymes break down fat. Your stomach also has a thick coating of mucus to protect it form the acids and to keep it from digesting itself!

By the way, your stomach really does look like a muscular bag!

Your Liver, Pancreas, and Gall Bladder Liver is the largest organ of your body. Liver breaks down many substances and toxins, and produces bile- a substance that helps break down fat. The bile produces enzymes that flow into the small intestines, helping to break up complex starches, proteins, and fats.

Your Small & Large Intestines After the solid food has been digested the fluid remaining is called chyme. In the small intestines all the nutrients are absorbed leaving undigestible wastes. These wastes pass into the large intestines, where water is removed. Then the wastes are stored in the rectum until they are released by the anus.

Cross Section of Your Intestines The Villi add surface area to increase absorption of food and nutrients through capillaries.

Your Respiratory System

The Functions of Your Respiratory System Your respiratory system moves oxygen from the outside environment into your bodyand removes carbon dioxide and water (this image shows all the tiny bronchioles that carry air into your alveoli for gas exchange).

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How You Breathe 1: The Diaphragm

How You Breathe 2: The Alveoli

The Respiratory and Circulatory Systems: Working Together. Working together the respiratory and circulatory systems form the cariopulmonary system, which is an integral connection between the heart and lungs.

Respiratory Disease: Lung Cancer The cancerous lung (right) shows how much damage smoking can do over time to your respiratory system.

X-Rays can help detect cancer, and surgery and radiation are some treatments for the disease. Web Sources and Resources www. smm. org/heart/lessons/lesson 11. htm

Please Take Care of Your Lungs and Don’t Smoke Web Sources and Resources: Usborne Science Encyclopedia pgs. and Quicklink Images

Your Immune System

Your Immune System Your Immune system protects you from foreign invaders. Special cells react to pathogen with a defense targeted specifically at that pathogen. http: //www. nobel. se/medicine/laureates/1996/illpres/introduction. html

Your Immune System Has Many Specialized Cells! White blood cells that target specific pathogens are called lymphocytes. There are two major kinds of lymphocytes—T cells and B cells. A major function of T cells is to identify pathogens by recognizing their antigens. Antigens are molecules that the immune system recognizes as either part of your body, or as coming from outside your body. B cells produce chemicals called antibodies.

How Your Immune System Works Our immune system protects us against threats. These include viruses, bacteria and parasites causing infectious diseases, from ordinary flu to full-blown malaria. The white blood cells of the defense system are produced in the marrow of our bones. The cells are carried in the blood to specialized organs, where they develop and communicate to launch immune responses against infections. • http: //www. nobel. se/medicine/laureates/1996/illpres/introduction. html

Your Muscular System

Types of Muscles Your body has three types of muscle tissue —skeletal muscle, smooth muscle, and cardiac muscle.

Skeletal Muscle skeletal muscles are classified as voluntary muscles. Muscles moves your bones, react quickly and tire quickly. At the end of a skeletal muscle is a tendon. A tendon is a strong connective tissue that attaches muscle to bone. Note- ligaments connect bones together.

Smooth Muscle Smooth muscles are called involuntary muscles because they work with your conscious effort.

Cardiac Muscle Cardiac muscles are involuntary muscles found only in the heart. Cardiac muscles do not get tired. A Cardiac Muscle Cell

How Do Muscles Work? Muscles work by contracting, or becoming shorter and thicker. Because muscle cells can only contract, not extend, skeletal muscles must work in pairs.

Your Circulatory System

Your Circulatory System is Responsible for Delivering and Removing Materials from Every Cell in Your Body Web Sources and Resources Usborne Human Body: Quicklinks

Blood is the fluid of life, transporting oxygen from the lungs to body tissue and carbon dioxide from body tissue to the lungs. Because it contains living cells, blood is alive. Red blood cells and white blood cells are responsible for nourishing, cleansing, and protecting the body. Since the cells are alive, they too need nourishment. Vitamins and Minerals keep the blood healthy. The blood cells have a definite life cycle, just as all living organisms do. Approximately 55 percent of blood is plasma, a straw-colored clear liquid. The liquid plasma carries the solid cells and the platelets which help blood clot. Without blood platelets, you would bleed to death. When the human body loses a little bit of blood through a minor wound, the platelets cause the blood to clot so that the bleeding stops. Because new blood is always being made inside of your bones, the body can replace the lost blood. When the human body loses a lot of blood through a major wound, that blood has to be replaced through a blood transfusion from other people.

Your Skeletal System

Your Skeleton’s Functions Your skeleton has five major functions. It provides shape and support, enables you to move, protects your internal organs, produces blood cells, and stores certain materials until your body needs them

Cartilage provides a smooth surface between bones or sometimes a more flexible extension of bone, as in the tip of your nose. As an infant, much of your skeleton was cartilage. By the time you stop growing, most of the cartilage will have been replaced with hard bone tissue.

Joints A joint is a place in the body where two bones come together and move in different ways. Movable joints include ball-andsocket joints, pivot joints, hinge joints, and gliding joints. The bones in movable joints are held together by ligament.

Take Care of Your Bones! A combination of a balanced diet and regular exercise can start you on the way to a lifetime of healthy bones. As people become older, their bones begin to lose some minerals. Mineral loss can lead to osteoporosis, a condition in which the body’s bones become weak and break easily. Regular exercise and a diet rich in calcium can help prevent osteoporosis.

Your Nervous System Your nervous system receives information about what is happening both inside and outside your body. It helps maintain homeostasis. A stimulus is any change or signal in the environment that can make an organism react.

Neurons The cells that carry information through your nervous system are called neurons, or nerve cells. The message that a neuron carries is called a nerve impulse.

The Anatomy of a Neuron

Your Central Nervous System. The Brain and Spinal Cord

Central & Peripheral Nervous Systems Working Together The yellow parts are CNS parts and the purple are parts of your peripheral nervous system.

Your Brain- The Command Center The human brain is a complex organ that allows us to think, move, feel, see, hear, taste, and smell. It controls our body, receives information, analyzes information, and stores information (our memories).

The Stroop Effect- Your Brain Can Get Confused! TRY IT!- The famous "Stroop Effect" is named after J. Ridley Stroop who discovered this strange phenomenon in the 1930 s. Here is your job: name the colors of the following words. Do NOT read the words. . . rather, say the color of the words. For example, for the word BLUE, you should say "RED". Say the colors as fast as you can. It is not as easy as you might think!

Alzheimer’s Disease Alzheimer's disease attacks the brain; it is not a normal part of aging. People with AD have a gradual memory loss and difficulties with language and emotions. The progressive loss of intellectual abilities is termed dementia. As the disease advances, the person may need help in all aspects of life: bathing, eating, and using the restroom. Because of this round-theclock care, families and friends of people with AD are greatly affected. The disease is irreversible and there is currently no cure.

Ouch! In the movie MATRIX, Neo and the others are plugged into the matrix through their CNS ! (Central Nervous System)

Your Senses Are Your Nervous System’s Bridge to the Outside World Sight, Taste, Touch, Hearing, Smell Web Sources and Resources: Usborne Science Encyclopedia pgs. 370 -375 and Quicklink Images

Your Excretory System Your excretory system collects wastes produced by cells and removes wastes from your body. Kidneys are the major organs of the excretory system. The kidneys filter your blood and remove urea, excess water, and some other waste materials from your blood. Urea is a chemical that comes from the breakdown of proteins. The filtering process produces urine. Each kidney contains about a million nephrons.

Your Excretory System Web Sources and Resources: Usborne Science Encyclopedia pg. 362 and Quicklink Images