Systems

Question 1

What does the cardiovascular system consist of?

Answer 1

The heart (cardio), blood and blood vessels (vascular)

Question 2

What does the cardiovascular system do?

Answer 2

It works to get blood around the system. Blood carries oxygen which keeps our bodies alive. Blood vessels bring blood back to the heart, arteries take the blood away.

Question 3

What is the difference between your blood pressure and your pulse?

Answer 3

Your pulse is how many time your heart ‘pumps’ blood around the body with each beat.
Your blood pressure is the force of blood against the artery walls. It’s recorded as the heart beats (systolic pressure) and as the heart relaxes between beats (dialostic pressure).

Question 4

What is coronary heart disease?

Answer 4

When the arteries become narrowed

Question 5

What is angina?

Answer 5

A lack of oxygen to the heart muscle becAuse of poor blood flow.

Question 6

What does the nervous system do?

Answer 6

Controls the processes of the body

Question 7

What are the two main parts of the nervous system?

Answer 7

The central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) and the peripheral nervous system (attaches the central nervous system to the rest of the body).

Question 8

What is the Autonomic Nervous system?

Answer 8

Controls automatic systems such as breathing and digestion.

Question 9

What does the respiratory system do?

Answer 9

It is responsible for the exchange of gases to and from our bodies.

Question 10

What does alveoli mean?

Answer 10

Air sacs

Question 11

What is the purpose of the digestive system?

Answer 11

To breakdown food so that it can be used by cells for energy, growth and repair.

Question 12

What happens when food enters the body?

Answer 12

1. Travels down our oesophagus into the stomach
2. The stomach valve opens allowing food in
3. Acids in the stomach break the food down into thick soup
4. Soup travels into small intestine where nutrients are absorbed through the walls and into the blood stream
5. Anything left goes into large intestine where rest of nutrients and water are absorbed
6. Anything left over travels into rectum and stored there until ready to poo

Question 13

What is the skeletal system made up of?

Answer 13

Bones, ligaments and tendons

Question 14

What does the skeletal system do?

Answer 14

It provides structure for the body and protects organs.

Question 15

How do the skeletal and muscular systems work together?

Answer 15

They help the body move at the joints

Question 16

What is the immune system?

Answer 16

The body’s defence against disease

Question 17

What is the lymphatic system?

Answer 17

Consists of lymph vessels, lymph nodes and fluid called lymph. It helps the filter and destroy toxins and germs

Question 18

What is the endocrine system?

Answer 18

It’s made up of glands that release chemical messengers or hormones into the blood stream.

Question 19

What is the urinary system?

Answer 19

The system that gets rid of waste from the body in the form of urine.

Question 20

What do the kidneys do?

Answer 20

They remove unwanted salts and chemical waste from the blood. This waste combines with water to form urine.

Question 21

What is the female reproductive system made up of and what does it do?

Answer 21

It produces eggs which enables a woman to have sex, nourish a baby and give birth.

It’s made up of the vagina, uterus, Fallopian tubes, ovaries and the breasts.

Question 22

What does the male reproductive system do and what does it consist of?

Answer 22

Enables a man to have sex and fertilise the ovum with sperm.

It’s made up of the penis, scrotum, testes, prostate gland and seminal vesicles.