1. Digestion Details Notes PageName: ______________________ Date: _______________________ 1.Our food gives us the __________________ to carry out life’s functions. 2.It is through the process of _____________________ that food is broken down into forms that our bodies can use. 3.Digestion starts in the __________________ with your __________________ and ____________________. 4.Your teeth _____________________________________________________________. 5.Saliva _________________________________________________________________. 6.The food forms a soft ball called a ______________________. 7.You swallow the bolus and it goes through the ______________________________. 8.The esophagus is ________________________________________________________. 9.The bolus passes the ____________________ ____________________ _________________. This is a ______________________________________________________________________. 10.Once the food is passed, the LES closes so that the food stays in the _______________. 11.Once the bolus is in the stomach, some wonderful _______________ ______________ start taking place. 12.______________ _____________ and other ______________ juices are added to the bolus. 13.The stomach muscles ___________________ the bolus and mix these liquids into it. 14.It is now much more soupy than when it was swallowed. This soupy liquid is called ________________________. 15.Another sphincter muscles is at the bottom of the stomach. This is called the ___________________ _____________________. 16.When it is close, the chyme _______________________________________________. 17.When it is open, the chyme ________________________________________________. 18.The top portion of the small intestine is called the ___________________________. 19.In the duodenum, chemicals from the ___________, __________________, and ____________________ mix with the chyme. 20.Now the chyme is ready to be __________________ by tiny blood vessels in the ___________________ ________________________. 21.The _____________________ carries the nutrients to the cells throughout the body. 22.Materials that were not digested pass into the ________________ _______________________. 23.Here, the extra liquid is absorbed. The solid material that remains is called ____________. 24.It is excreted through the _________________.

2. Removing the Waste Notes PageName: ______________________ Date: _______________________ 1.What would it be like if we never took out the trash?__________________________________________________________________ 2.The ______________ in your body need to get rid of waste, too. 3.Since cells are so small, their waste material is in the form of _____________________. 4.Your ___________________ picks up these waste molecules and carries them to your __________________________. 5.The main job of your kidneys is to ______________________________________________________________________. 6.How big is a kidney? ______________________________________________________ 7.What does the waste material in your kidneys combine with? _____________________ 8.What forms when waste material and water combine? __________________________ 9.Tubes called the ______________________ carry the urine to your ________________. 10.How many cups of urine do the tube carry a day? _______________________ 11.What is your bladder like? ________________________________________________ 12.What do stretch receptors do? ______________________________________________________________________ 13.What is the last step of the urinary process? ______________________________________________________________________ 14.What is the tube called that takes urine out of your body? _______________________ 15.What makes up the urinary system? ____________, ___________ _______________, _____________________, and ______________________. 16.Urine is a ______________ ____________________. 17.If you didn’t have a urinary system, waste material would ______________________________________________________________________.

3. Dem Bones Notes PageName: ________________________ Date: _________________________ 1.Your skeletal system is made up of __________________________________________. 2.These bones ___________________________________________________________. 3.They also _______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________. 4.The outside layer of the bone is called the _____________________________. 5.It contains _____________ and __________________ _______________________. 6.Under that is a layer of _________________ bone (also called ___________________ bone). 7.This is what you see when you look at a ______________________________. 8.Beneath the bard bone is _____________________ bone (also called ________________________ bone). 9.In the very center of some bones is the ___________________ ___________________. 10.This is where ______________________ ________________ are made. 11.When you are born, you have about _____________ bones. As you grow, some of these bones ____________ together. 12.By the time you are an adult and have stopped growing, you will only have _____________ bones. 13.Are your bones all the same shape and size? ____________ 14.Scientists classify them as five types: _____________, ______________, ___________, ____________________, and ______________________. 15.Long bones, like the bones in your arms and legs, help you __________________. 16.Flat bones, like the bones in your skull, help __________________________________. 17.Your skeletal system is divided into two parts. One part is called the _____________ skeleton, and the other part is called the _______________________ skeleton. 18.The axial skeleton is made up of the ______________, ___________________, __________________, and the ___________________. 19.The appendicular skeleton is made up of the ____________________________ bones, _____________ ________________ and ________________, and the _____________.

4. Many Muscles Notes PageName: _____________________ Date: ______________________ 1.You have three kinds of muscles in your body 1.__________________ 2.__________________ 3.__________________ 2._________________ muscles are what you think of when you think of muscles. These are the muscles that are attached to your ______________________. 1.They help you __________, __________, ___________, ___________________, ________________, _______________, ________________, and _______________. 2.You have ___________ skeletal muscles in your body. 3.The largest is the _____________ _______________________. This is the muscle on your ___________________. 4.The smallest muscle is inside your ear. IT is called the _____________________. 5.Skeletal muscles are also called ______________________ muscles because these are the muscles that you can _________________. 6.You can _________________________, _____________________________, _____________, _________________ and ____________________ just by thinking about it and doing it. 7.Muscles can only _________________; they cannot _________________. 8.That means that many skeletal muscles need to work in ________________ to help your body parts move. 9.What are two skeletal muscles in your arms? _____________________ and ____________________. 3.Your other muscles are _______________________. That means that you _____________________________________________. Your _______________ keeps them doing what they should be doing automatically. 1.You have two kinds of involuntary muscles: 1.___________________ 2.___________________ 2.___________________ muscles are found in your digestive system. They _________________ and ______________________ to move food through your body. 1.The ___________ in your eye is also a smooth muscle. 2.Your _________________ is another place where smooth muscles are at work. 3.____________________ muscle is a special kind of involuntary muscle. It is only found in the ________________. Your heart muscle pumps about __________________________ times each day to move blood through your body.