Chapter 12 – Organ Systems Activity
Group # 1 – Digestive and Excretory Systems
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Color and label all the parts in the pictures provided.
Explain the main function of the digestive system.
List the 3 major steps of the digestive process and describe what happens in each.
List all organs involved in the digestive process in order from when food enters the body and describe the role of
each organ.
5. Compare and contrast the liver and the pancreas.
6. Explain the main function of the excretory system.
7. List all the organs involved in the excretory system and explain the role of each one.
Group #2 – Respiratory and Circulatory Systems
1. Color and label all the parts in the pictures provided.
2. Explain the main function of the respiratory system.
3. List all organs involved in the respiratory system, and describe the order in which oxygen flows through the
system and the order in which carbon dioxide flows through the system.
4. What are alveoli?
5. What is the diaphragm and what does it do?
6. Explain the main function of the circulatory system.
7. List the 3 main organs involved in the circulatory system and describe the role of each organ.
8. List and describe the three types of blood vessels.
9. Describe the different parts of blood.
10. Explain why people have different blood types and why this is important for doctors.
11. List the 4 types of blood.
Group #3 – Lymphatic (Immune) System
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Color and label all the parts in the pictures provided.
Describe the 4 main functions of the lymphatic system.
List 5 organs involved in the lymphatic system.
What is a lymphocyte and what do they do?
What is immunity and how is it acquired?
Differentiate between infectious and noninfectious disease and give three examples of each.
What are the three lines of defense and what does each do?
Group # 4 – Skeletal and Muscular Systems
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Color and label all the parts in the pictures provided.
Identify the 4 jobs of the skeletal system.
How many bones do adults have?
What are 4 parts of the skeletal system?
What mineral do bones store and why is it important?
Why do bones help you move?
List and describe the three types of bone tissue.
Explain the main function of the muscular system.
List and describe the 3 types of muscle tissues.
Group #5 – Nervous System
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Color and label all the parts in the pictures provided.
Explain the main function of the nervous system.
What is a neuron? Draw what it looks like.
List the main parts of the nervous system.
List and describe the two types of nervous system, list and describe the organs involved in each type of nervous
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What protects the central nervous system? What protects the peripheral nervous system?
Explain the order in which information is processed.
Explain what voluntary and involuntary functions are and give 3 examples of each.
Define reflexes and where is it processed?
Identify 5 ways humans detect their external environment.
Group #6 – Endocrine System and Reproductive System
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Color and label all the parts in the pictures provided.
Explain the main function of the endocrine system.
List all the organs involved in the endocrine system.
Explain what hormones are and what they do in the body.
What are two systems that work with the endocrine system and what does each system do?
Explain why hormones are important.
Give three examples of hormones and what each one does.
Group #7 – Reproductive System
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Color and label all the parts in the pictures provided.
Define reproduction.
Identify the human reproductive cells (general name, female sex cell, and male sex cell).
Explain what fertilization is and identify what kind of cell it produces.
What happens to the zygote?
What is the function of the male reproductive system?
List 4 parts of the male reproductive system and explain what each part does.
What hormone is produced by the testes and what does it do?
List the parts of the female reproductive system and explain what each part does.
What hormones are made by ovaries and what do they do?
What happens if sperm is present in the fallopian tube? What happens if there is no sperm?
Describe what the menstrual cycle is and how long it lasts.
Describe three parts of the menstrual cycle.