Modeling Body Systems Quick Check

Question: What is the role of the nervous system in digestion?

Answer: to provide electrical signals to initiate peristalsis

Question: You are building a birdhouse when you cut your finger. Predict which body systems would be immediately involved with your reaction to the cut.

Answer: nervous system, circulatory system, integumentary system

Question: The pizza that you ate for lunch is being digested. Summarize what happens to it in your stomach.

Answer: The pizza is churned, mixing it with digestive enzymes and gastric acid.

Question: Summarize the nervous system’s influence on the respiratory system.

Answer: It controls muscle contraction.

Question: Muscular dystrophy is a neuromuscular disease that weakens a person’s muscles. Infer which main body systems would be involved in this disease?

Answer: nervous, muscular, and skeletal