Monday, December 08, 2008

8th Grade Homework - Week of 12/8/08

Here is your homework for this coming week:
- Lung Labs due Wednesday (12/10).
- In UPCO Book, work through a chapter on a system you did NOT already study (due Thursday 12/11).
- On the blog, talk about how the system you studied during our project and the new system you are working on work together to maintain homeostasis. Due Friday (12/12)
YOU CAN POST YOUR WORK HERE BY LEAVING A COMMENT!
-Test - Body Systems - next Wednesday (12/17).

24 comments:

Anonymous said...

The system that I studied in the upco book was the digestive system. I thought that the digestive system is interesting after reading about it. The digestive system is basically when your body takes big things and breaks them down into small things in exchange for energy. The digestive system relates to my previous system that I did a project on. My previous system was the circulatory system. When digestion is done nutrients go into your blood and are transported. The circulatory system distributes the materials, like proteins to all the parts of the body. The digestive system breaks down things in materials like proteins and the circulatory system carries them throughout the body which evens out things and creates homeostasis.

Anonymous said...

The body system that I researched for the project was the endocrine system. The endocrine system keeps everything on track. For the endocrine system your body responds to changes in the internal and external environment. So does the nervous system. The nervous system is the new body system that I researched. The nervous system has two parts,the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system.The spinal cord and the brain are in the central nervous system. There are nerves that are outside of the central nervous system. Those nerves make up the peripheral nervous system. It also carries impulses for the central nervous system. The nervous system and the endocrine system work together to maintain homeostasis. They work together to maintain homeostasis by the production of hormones made by the endocrine system being controlled by the nervous system.

Anonymous said...

The system I studied in class was the excreatory system. The system i read about in the upco book was the respritory system. They both maintain homeostasis by when food is taken in to the body the excratory system gets rid of it.

Anonymous said...

For the body systems project I did the endocrine system with my partner. The new body system I am studying in the UPCO book is the nervous system. The nervous system controls the production of hormones made by the endocrine system which maintains homeostasis. Both these systems work together to maintain homeostasis.

Anonymous said...

The new body system that I researched in the upco book was the circulatory system. The circulatory system is really interesting, it feeds the body and keeps everything flowing to and from cells. The circulatory system is an organ system that moves nutrients, gases, and wastes to and from cells. The circulatory system helps maintain the body temperature and pH to maintain homeostasis. The system I studied for the project was the digestive system. The digestive system works with the circulatory system by the small intestines. If there isn’t a heart-beat from the circulatory system, It won't be able to push the food down into the digestive system (without force).

Anonymous said...

The body system that I have researched previously with my partner was the Circulatory System. This week, I chose to research and examine the Excretory System. For our Excretory Systems to work good, we need transportation, and this is where the Circulatory System plays a part. We excrete either pooping, peeing, sweating or even exhaling. For us to even poop or pee, we need a way for the body to transport it around the body to the kidney to a tube like part called urethra. Without the Circulatory playing a big part in the Excretory System, then we would have a disease called Kidney Stones; in which the passages to the kidney is blocked due to excessive solid materials. The Excretory System also has it's bad parts. There's a skin deffection, which, we as teens know perfectly. Acne and black heads. This is caused due to the blockage of perspiration out of the skin causing the pores to be clogged, therefore, acne and blackheads.

Anonymous said...

The system I worked on for my project was the excretory system. The one I did in the UPCO book was the Respiratory system. The way these two systems worked together to maintain homeostasis is the Respiratory system exchanges different gases and diffuses them to make them equal and balanced. The Excretory system excretes waste and gases that aren’t needed anymore. This also balances everything out and then your body is in homeostasis. That’s how my two systems I worked on worked together to maintain homeostasis.

Anonymous said...

The system project i did was the digestive system and the new system i learned about is the excretory system.
They have to work together in order to maintain homeostasis, the digestive system breaks down the food you eat and your excretory system is how the waste comes out, in solid or liquid.
The waste you produce from digestion is like poison in your body, if you don't get rid of it you could get sick and die, so your excretory system is necessary in your body so you can get rid of this "poison", so you can keep preforming life functions.

Anonymous said...

The body system that i did for my
project was the respitory system. the new body system that i reachershed this week was this nervous system. they work together in the body to keep the body running smooth. the respitory system helps transports things across the body and the nervous system tells that suff where to go and if that section of the body has enoght of what ever.

Anonymous said...

The body system that I researched for the human body stystem project was the nervous system. The nervous system keeps everything on track by sending messages to your brain when something isn't right. For example, if you touch a hot stove, your nerves send messages to your brain telling you to remove your hand from the surface. The body system that I studied in the UPCO book, was the immune system. The immune system fights off germs, with the white blood cells in your body. The immune system fights off as many germs as it can while the nervous system sends messages to your brain telling you somethings not right, this is how these two systems maintain homeostasis.

Anonymous said...

The system I worked on during the project was the Respitory System. The UPCO book chapter I worked on was the Digestive System. They work together when you breath, it takes all the CO2 out of your system.

Anonymous said...

The body system me and my partner did was the Skeletal Muscular system. The system I previously researched was the Digestive System. What I learned was that its a lot more complicated then just eating and getting rid of your waste. And also, pooping is not excreting, its part of digestion, and its called the end product. what really bonds the two systems i studied together, is how when you take in food, you use it for energy, required for the skeletal muscular system. even to lift an arm, you need a lot of energy. so without the Digestive System, there would be no Skeletal Muscular System, thus meaning, no point of existing (unless you want to just lay on the ground and do nothing till you die of starvation or dehydration)

Anonymous said...

The system I did for the project was the Immune System. The new body system that I researched was the circulatory system. They work together to maintain homeostasis because of how the immune system's white blood cells flowing through the blood and keeping all foreign objects away.

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Anonymous said...

The body system my partner and I researched was the digestive system. The system I decided to research alone was the excretory system.
The excretory system and the digestive system work together to maintain homeostasis. The digestive system breaks down the food you eat, and after the body has absorbed all the nutrients it needs from the food, the excretory system takes and passes the waste out of the body. If the excretory system doesn’t remove the waste, the waste will remain and can be toxic to the body. If the digestive system and excretory system do their jobs correctly and in balance, your body can keep performing the life functions it needs to.

C. Smith said...

The project I worked for the project was the muscular/skeletal system, and the systems I just did in the UPCO book was the Respiratory system. Here is an example of how these two systems work together to mantain homeostasis.

When someone is exercising their muscles have to work to move the body. Your muscles need blood pumped to them to function. The more the musles work the more blood they need. Thats why the heart pumps faster and you breathe faster, because the muscles need more oxygen. When you stop exercising everything goes back to normal. Your muscles need less blood your heart pumps less blood so you breath slower.

That is the whole cycle of exercising.

Anonymous said...

The system that i did for my project was the nervous system. The nervous system has two main systems.The central nervous and the peripheral nervous system.The peripheral nervous system is mad up of all nerves. Its main job is to get inforimation from the body and send out instructions.The one i did in the UPCO'S book was Chapter 9 Transport - Immune system.The immune system defense againist infectious orangisms.It attacks organisms and substances that invade the immune system and causes diseases.

Anonymous said...

The nervous system was the system i did for the project. In the UPCO book i researched the digestive system. All the systems work together to maintain homeostasis. The nervous system and the digestive system also work together with the excretory system. They break down your food(digestive). Then it sends energy to the cells(nervous), which makes you excrete(excretion).

Anonymous said...

The system I did in class was the endocrine system. The new system I reviewed was the nervous system. The nervous system is separated in two parts, the central nervous system and the peripheral nervous system. The nervous system sends impulses (neurons) throughout the whole body. The impulses are then sent to organs or glands. The organs or glands provide a certain responses to them.
So, I am pretty sure that the nervous system controls how much/when to make hormones in the glands. The glands, as part of the endocrine system, then make hormones when told. This how the body maintains homeostasis by using each other as a "step of a staircase" to finishing the cycle, which then repeats again and again.

Anonymous said...

I "studied" the digestive system.
I learned how food is "processed" thought the body.
The digestive system is basically when your body takes big things and breaks them down into small things in exchange for energy.
for the project i studied the The nervous system.The nervous system and the digestive system also work together . They break down your food digestive,Then after it sends energy to the cells in the nervous system.

Anonymous said...

The body system i chose to do for my project was the respiratory system. The new body system i chose to do in the UPCO book was the excretory system. They work together to maintain homeostasis because when you inhale or eat something, the excretory system helps to get rid of that waste in your body.

Anonymous said...

The project I did with my group was the immune system and it maintains homeostasis because the immune system's white blood cells flowing through the blood and keeping all-foreign objects away. The system I did now was the human urinary system and it maintains homeostasis because it releases excretion.

Anonymous said...

The body system that i did for my project was the nervous system. The new body system that i researched was the digestive system. They work together to maintain homeostasis. The nervous system sends messages to the digestive system telling it how to digest the food.

Anonymous said...

the system i did in the upco book was the respiratory system. i thought it was cool because i learned that there is alot of things that move through your body every day and there is alot of tubes and musles that move the air were its suppost to go. like the diaphram contracts in and out along with the rib cage to move the air in and out on the lungs