The Body SystemsLeslee Waynick

Cardiovascular System

• The Cardiovascular System distributes blood throughout your body.

• The average adult has 5-6 liters of blood!

Digestive System

• The Digestive System is made Up of a lot of organs to break down your food that can be absorbed!

•Food would get to a persons stomach, even if they were standing on their head.

Respiratory System

• Your respiratory systems consists of your lungs, trachea, diaphragm, mouth and nose, and its purpose is to oxygenate your blood.

• Our lungs can hold up to 6 liters of air!

Muscular System• The muscular system in your

body is composed of skeletal muscle, and cardiac muscle. Skeletal muscle attaches primarily to your skeleton and moves voluntarily or by reflex. Cardiac muscle is the muscle of your heart and contracts involuntarily.

• There are twenty muscles in each hand.

• 200 muscles are used in each step you take.

Nervous System

• Your nervous system communicates with the rest of your body using electrical impulses. It receives information from your skin, muscles, joints, organs and glands. It also transmits them along the spinal cord to the brain in the central nervous system.

• Nerves can carry signals at an amazing speed of 100 meters a second...and that's not their fastest

Endocrine System

• The endocrine system is instrumental in regulating mood, growth and development, tissue function, metabolism, and sexual function and reproductive processes.

• The human brain weighs about 3Ibs.

Integumentary System

• The Integumentary system is your skin. Its outer layer, or epidermis, helps to protect its inner layers from bacteria and viruses.

• Hair and nails are said to continue growing on dead bodies for a while!

Urinary System

• The Urinary System is focused on eliminating waste products into a form called Urine.

• Urine is almost odorless when it leaves a healthy body.

Immune System

• Your immune system is made up of many types of cells that protect you from disease, bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi.

• Getting under 5 hours of sleep a night has been shown to depress your immune system!

Reproductive System

• The male and female reproductive systems, although different, serve the same purpose of reproduction.– Females are already

born with their eggs!

Work Cited

• http://www.innerbody.com/image/repmov.html

• http://library.thinkquest.org/07aug/01618/funfacts.html

• http://www.livestrong.com/article/119869-list-body-systems/

• www.google.com/images