Jenga Review Questions
1. What organ pumps the blood?
2. What type of muscle is the heart made of?
3. What are the three parts of the Circulatory System?
4. What blood vessel carries blood away from the heart?
5. What blood vessel carries blood to the heart?
6. What blood vessel is one-cell thick and allows for material to exchange between the blood and the body cells?
7. What are the two primary blood cells?
8. What is the function of the red blood cells?
9. What is the function of the white blood cells?
10. What is the function of platelets?
11. What is the liquid part of the blood called?
12. Name three things the blood carries.
13. What is the function of the Circulatory System?
14. Where does air enter the body?
15. What tube carries the air from your pharynx (nasal cavity) and lungs?
16. The trachea branches into the ______tubes.
17. Where is gas exchange taking place in the Respiratory System?
18. What muscle controls inhaling and exhaling?
19. What gasses are being exchanged between the Respiratory and Circulatory System?
20. What is the function of the Respiratory System?
21. What are the three type of muscles?
22. Where in the body would you find smooth muscle?
23. Where in the body would you find cardiac muscle?
24. Where in the body would you find skeletal muscle?
25. What type of muscles can you control?
26. What type of muscles do you not control?
27. What is the function of the Muscular System?
28. What system controls the Muscular System?
29. What tissue connects muscles to bones?
30. What part of the bone makes blood cells?
31. What tissue connects bone to bone?
32. What tissue is found in the joints of the body to help cushion bones?
33. List 3 of the 5 functions of the Skeletal System?
34. What two systems work with the skeletal system to allow you to move?
35. Bones are considered to be … (cell. tissue, organ)
36. What are the primary organs of the Nervous System?
37. What type of signals does the Nervous System send?
38. What tissue do the signals travel through?
39. What is a single cell in the Nervous System called?
40. What are considered the 5 primary senses?
41. What is the function of the Nervous System?
42. Where are hormones produced?
43. What are hormones?
44. What type of signal does the Endocrine send?
45. What is the name of the cell that receives the hormonal message?
46. How do hormones travel in your body?
47. What effects can hormones have on your body?
48. What is the primary function of the Endocrine System?
49. Name a key difference between the Endocrine System and the Nervous System.
50. What was the best movie you saw this year?
51. What is the best book you read this year?
52. What TV show is currently your favorite?
53. What are your plans over the break?
54. Who is your favorite Muppet?