Health 2
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- joints
- places where one bone meets another
- kidneys
- a filtering system for the blood.
- Respiratory system
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To carry oxygen to cells.
To removecarbon dioxide from blood - skeletal and muscular systems
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To support and move teh body
To protect organs - Digestive ans excretory systems
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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