HUMAN BODY SYSTEM CHART

SYSTEM FUNCTIONS ORGANS/Major STRUCTURES

Skeletal
Functions:
1. Supports and protects the
body
2. Protect organs
3. Makes blood cells
4. Gives the body the shape
. !elps body to "ove
#ones
$iga"ents: connects bones to bones
%artilage: provides cushion bet&een the
bones
'ed Marro&: "akes blood
Muscular
Function: !elp the body "ove
(&o (ypes o) Muscles:
1. *oluntary Muscles: "uscles
you %+, control -Skeletal
Muscles.
2. /nvoluntary Muscles:
"uscles you %+,,0( control
-s"ooth and cardiac "uscles.
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(endon: connects "uscle to bones
Skeletal Muscles: attached to the bones
and
helps us "ove
S"ooth Muscles: "ake up "ost o) the
organs
o) our body
%ardiac Muscles: "ake up the heart
Digestive
Function: #reaks do&n )ood to
"ake energy )or the body
34irection o) )ood "ove"ent:
Mouth esophagus sto"ach
S". /ntestine lg. /ntestine
rectu" anus
3Peristalsis: "uscle "ove"ent
that "oves )ood through the
4.S
Mouth
5sophagus: $ong tube that connects the
"outh to the sto"ach.
Sto"ach1 $iver1 Pancreas
S"all /ntestine: &here "ost digestion
takes
place.
$arge /ntestine: (akes &ater )ro" the
undigested "aterials
'ectu"1 +nus
Circulator

Function: %arries 0
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)ood1 &aste disease )ighting
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body
34irection o) blood )lo&:
!eart
*eins
+rteries
%apillaries
!eart: "ain organ o) %S that pu"ps blood
to
all parts o) the body
+rtery: thickest blood vessel that carry
blood
high in o7ygen +8+9 )ro" the
heart.
%apillary: thinnest blood vessel that
connects
arteries 6 vein and &here the
actual
e7change o) "aterials take
place.
*ein: blood vessel that carry blood high in
carbon dio7ide (08+'4 the heart.
#lood: carries )ood and o7ygen to the body
and take a&ay &aste )ro" cells
8hite #lood %ells: )ight disease
Res!irato
r
Function: take in o7ygen
and take out carbon dio7ide
and so"e &ater out o) the
body
34irection o) air "ove"ent:
nose trachea
bronchi -into the lungs.
bronchioles alveoli
,ose
(rachea: large tube that carries air to the
bronchi
$aryn7
#ronchi: tube that connects the trachea
and
lungs
$ungs: "ain organ o) the 'S
+lveoli: + tiny air sac &here air e7change
takes place
4iaphrag": strong "uscle belo& the lungs
that helps in breathing
E"cretor
3Function: take out &aste
)ro"
the body
4irection o) urine "ove"ent:
#ody kidney ureter
:rinary bladder urethra
3:rine is "ade o) &aste1 e7tra
&ater1 and salt
3Perspiration -s&eat.: li;uid
&aste that leaves the body
through the skin and helps
control the body te"perature
<idney: "ain organ o) the 5S &here urine
is
"ade
:rteter: a tube that carries urine )ro" the
kidney to the urinary bladder
:rinary bladder
:rethra: a tube that carries urine out o) the
body
$iver1 Skin
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re"ove -take a&ay. &aste )ro" your
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$ungs: breathe out %0
2
<idney: "ake urine
Skin: perspiration -s&eat.
Nervous
Function: controls +$$ the
activities o) the body: it?s the
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(&o parts o) nervous syste":
1. %entral ,ervous syste"
-%,S.: "ade up o) brain and
spinal cord1 controls all activities
o) the body.
2. Peripheral ,ervous Syste"
-P,S.: "ade up o) all the nerves
outside o) %,S1 and carries
"essages bet&een %,S to the
all parts o) the body
#rain: control center o) our body )unctions
Spinal cord: connects brain &ith the rest o)
the body
,erves: nerve cells