Transcript Systems

The Human Body
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Chapter 6
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• 1st 2 rows Read pages 55-60
• Middle 2 rows Read pages 61-65
• Last 2 rows Read 68-71
• Be ready to explain to the class what you
read
Respiratory System
Circulatory System
Digestive System
Muscular System
Skeletal System
Digestive System
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Gross & Cool Facts!
Respiratory System
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Gross & Cool Facts!
Circulatory System
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Gross & Cool Facts!
Muscular System
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Gross & Cool Facts!
Skeletal System
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Gross & Cool Facts!
Digestive System
Gross and Cool Facts!
• HOW LONG ARE YOUR INTESTINES? At least 25 feet in
an adult. Be glad you're not a full-grown horse -- their
coiled-up intestines are 89 feet long!
• Chewing food takes from 5-30 seconds
• Swallowing takes about 10 seconds
• Food sloshing in the stomach can last 3-4 hours
• It takes 3 hours for food to move through the intestine
• Food drying up and hanging out in the large intestine can
last 18 hours to 2 days!
• Americans eat about 700 million pounds of peanut butter.
• Americans eat over 2 billion pounds of chocolate a year.
• In your lifetime, your digestive system may handle about 50
tons!!
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Respiratory System
Gross and Cool Facts!
• Your lungs contain almost 1500 miles of airways
and over 300 million alveoli.
• Every minute you breathe in 13 pints of air.
• Plants are our partners in breathing. We breathe
in air, use the oxygen in it, and release carbon
dioxide. Plants take in carbon dioxide and
release oxygen. Thank goodness!
• People tend to get more colds in the winter
because we're indoors more often and in close
proximity to other people. When people sneeze,
cough and even breathe -- germs go flying!
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Circulatory System
Gross and Cool Facts!
• The body of an adult contains over 60,000 miles
of blood vessels!
• An adult's heart pumps nearly 4000 gallons of
blood each day!
• Your heart beats some 30 million times a year!
• The average three-year-old has two pints of
blood in their body; the average adult at least
five times more!
• A "heartbeat" is really the sound of the valves in
the heart closing as they push blood through its
chambers.
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Muscular System
Gross and Cool Facts!
• You have over 30 facial muscles which
create looks like surprise, happiness,
sadness, and frowning.
• Eye muscles are the busiest muscles in
the body. Scientists estimate they may
move more than 100,000 times a day!
• The largest muscle in the body is the
gluteus maximus muscle in the buttocks.
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Skeletal System
Gross and Cool Facts!
• Your hand has 27 bones; your face has 14!
• The longest bone in your body? Your thigh
bone, the femur -- it's about 1/4 of your height.
The smallest is the stirrup bone in the ear which
can measure 1/10 of an inch.
• Humans and giraffes have the same number of
bones in their necks? Giraffe neck vertebrae are
just much, much longer!
• You have over 230 moveable and semimoveable joints in your body.
• You have 206 bones in your body.
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Review
1. Bones allow movement and protect soft
vital organs such as kidneys and brain
2. Bones manufacture all of the body’s
blood cells
3. Bone Tissue is extremely fragile
4. Bones become softer as you grow older
5. Osteoporosis is a condition of weak
bones which effects elderly people
6. Teenagers should be especially careful to
include adequate amounts of calcium in
their diets.
7. The way bones and muscles move could
be compared to a pulley and a lever.
8. Bone-building cells remain active while
the bone-dismantling cells slow down.
9. The humerus is nicknamed the funny
bone
10.Knuckle cracking has been linked to
arthritis.
11.Muscles are formed in many layers of
muscle tissue
12.Muscle that move automatically are
called voluntary muscles
13.Voluntary muscles are stronger than
involuntary muscles.
14. The muscle of the heart are voluntary
but very weak.
15.All voluntary muscles are best suited to
fast action.
16.Muscles respond to electrical impulses
created by signals from nerve cells.
17.Over-developing particular muscles can
actually impair body movement.
18.All muscles are the same
19.Muscles help you digest food.
20.The tongue is the strongest muscle in
your body.
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