Name: _________________ Grade & Section: _______________ Date: ___________

Topic: Introduction to Life Science

Learning Competencies:
 Describe the general and unique characteristics of the different organ systems in representative
animals (S11/12LT-IIIaj- 21)
 Analyze and appreciate the functional relationships of the different organ systems in ensuring
animal survival (S11/12LT-IIIaj- 22)

Objectives:
1. Familiarize the different human body system their organs and their functions
2. Describe nutrition and how foods are getting into cells
3. Explain how gas exchange happens with the environment
4. Discover circulation, the internal transport system.

Activity 1. The Ten Champions

Fill in the passage below using the words inside the box.

Muscular Urinary Integumentary Facilitates 200 Hold Protects Three Smooth

facilitate Blood vessels Circulatory Delivers Nerve Coordinate Hormones Distributed
Defenses Immune system Renal Filters Lungs Absorbed Anchor points Creating
Differ Nervous well-being Eleven Cardiovascular

The human body is a complex network of cells, tissues and organs that together, make life possible.
1._____major systems are responsible for the human body’s functions. Skeletal, 2._______,
3.________, Endocrine, 4.________, Lymphatic, Respiratory, Digestive, 5._______, Reproductive, and
6._________.
The skeletal, Muscular, cardiovascular and nervous systems in particular create an infrastructure that
7.________ the other systems. The adult skeletal system is a framework of over 8.____ bones. They
9.____ the body together, give it shape, 10.______ its organs and tissues. The skeleton also provides
11.__________ for the muscular system, which includes 12._____ types of muscles. Skeletal, 13.______
and cardiac. They are found throughout the body and 14.______ movement.
Nestled within those muscles mentioned is the cardiovascular system. A pipeline that includes the heart,
15.___________ and the blood itself. Also called the 16._________ system, the cardiovascular system
17.______ oxygen, white blood cells, hormones, and nutrients throughout the body.
Lastly, the nervous system is a communication network of 18._____ cells that the body use to transmit
information and 19._________ bodily functions. It’s comprised of the brain, the hub of sensory and
intellectual activity. The spinal cord, and the many cranial and spinal nerves that emanate from them.
This infrastructure created by neurons, blood muscles and bones, allows three other systems to regulate
the body’s environment. The endocrine, lymphatic and urinary systems.
The endocrine system is a series of glands that use information carried by the nervous system to help
regulate the body’s processes. Thanks to this neural connection, endocrine glands, such as the thyroid,
are aware of the amount of 20._______ and other chemicals they need to produce. These chemicals are
then 21. ________ throughout the body by way of the cardiovascular system.
The cardiovascular system and nervous system are utilized by the lymphatics system. A collection of
lymph nodes and vessels that help regulate the body’s 22.________. Also called the 23._______ system,
the lymphatic system uses neural pathways to transmit information about affected areas of the body, and
then sends out healing agents like white blood cells via the bloodstream.
Another key regulatory system is the urinary system, which includes the kidneys, ureters, bladder, and
urethra. The urinary or 24.______ system, maintains the body’s electrolyte levels and 25._______
wastes from the blood. This waste is sent through the blood vessels into the kidneys and then expelled as
urine.
All of these systems require energy to function, and that’s where respiratory and digestive systems come
in.
The respiratory system is a group of passageways and organs that extracts life-giving oxygen from the
air we breathe. Air enters the body through nasal cavities, travels down the throat and is them
transported to the lungs. The 26._____ extract oxygen for the body to use and then expel a carbon
dioxide by-product when we exhale.
Energy can also come in the form of food. The digestive system is an approximately 30-foot series of
organs that convert food into fuel. Food enters the system through the mouth then moves into the
esophagus, the stomach, and the intestines. Nutrients are 27.______ into the body while solid waste is
expelled through the anal canal, the end of the digestive tract.
No matter the role, size and shape of any of the body’s systems, each began with a reproductive system.
This system is responsible for 28._______ life. The primary organs involved 29._____ between the
sexes with ovaries, fallopian tubes, the uterus and vagina found in women, and testes and a sperm
channel found in men. Together, fertilization may occur, organ systems forms, and then a child is born.
Humans are complicated organism. But when our ten major organ systems are healthy, they ensure our
30.__________.
Activity 2. What Happens When You Eat?
Below is a picture of someone who is about to eat an apple. Match the organs below into their proper
place (in the correct specific order) in the human’s body. Then describe its function on the blank below.
(Item 1 is provided as an example.)
1. Tongue - is responsible for mechanical digestion as it pushes the food into the pharynx.
2.______________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________
3.______________________________________________________________________
___________________________________
4.______________________________________________________________________
___________________________________
5.______________________________________________________________________
___________________________________
6.______________________________________________________________________
___________________________________
Activity 3. Your Respiratory System
Look at the diagram. Read about what each part of the respiratory system does. Label
each part of the respiratory system on the diagram, then answer the follow-up question
down below.
 1. How does gas exchange happen between you and the environment? Explain in
detail.
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________

Activity 4.
Study the diagram below and discover how blood is being pumped and how it flows with
this amazing organ. Write your answers on the space provided below. (You can search
through the internet for reference.) You can also watch a video about how the heart
actually pumps blood. Refer on the link provided below:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruM4Xxhx32U
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________

References:
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae4MadKPJC0
2. https://www.education.com/worksheet/article/anatomy-heart-2/
3. https://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/guide/how-heart-works#1
4. https://www.emsworld.com/article/12313776/understanding-the-gas-exchange-process

This worksheet is exclusive for DepEd Digos City use only. We welcome any comment
for the improvement of this material. Please email to luzminda.jasmin@deped.gov.ph
for your suggestions.

Prepared by:

SHEENA MAE N. ROXAS

Special Science Teacher 1
Senior High School in Digos City
Answer Key:
Activity 1. The Ten Champions (2,3,4,5 and 6 can be in any order or interchange)
1.Eleven 2. Muscular 3. Cardiovascular 4. Nervous 5. Urinary 6. Integumentary. 7. Facilitates 8. 200 9. Hold 10.
Protects 11. Anchor points 12. Three 13. Smooth 14 facilitate 15. Blood vessels 16. Circulatory 17. Delivers 18.
Nerve 19. Coordinate 20. Hormones 21. Distributed 22. Defenses 23. Immune system 24. Renal 25. Filters 26.
Lungs 27. Absorbed 28. Creating 29. Differ 30 well-being

Activity 2. What Happens When You Eat?

1. Tongue – is responsible for mechanical digestion as it pushes the food into the pharynx
2. Nasal and mouth cavity – the mouth is the entrance of food and is also responsible for
mechanical digestion while the nasal cavity is where the air passes through the pharynx on its way
to the larynx and eventually the lungs. Because the pharynx serves two different functions, it contains a
flap of tissue known as the epiglottis that acts as a switch to route food to the esophagus and air to
the larynx.
3. Esophagus - is a muscular tube connecting the pharynx to the stomach
4. Stomach - is a muscular sac acts as a storage tank for food so that the body has time to digest large meals
properly
5. Small Intestine - is a long, thin tube coiled like a hose and the inside surface is full of many ridges and
folds. These folds are used to maximize the digestion of food and absorption of nutrients.
6. Large Intestine - is a long, thick tube that absorbs water and contains many symbiotic bacteria that aid in
the breaking down of wastes to extract some small amounts of nutrients

Activity 3.

1. How does gas exchange happen between you and the environment? Explain in detail.

Gas exchange is the process of absorbing inhaled atmospheric oxygen molecules into the
bloodstream and offloading carbon dioxide from the bloodstream into the atmosphere. This process is
completed in the lungs through the diffusion of gases. The process also requires that oxygen move from
its gaseous environment into a liquid environment and carbon dioxide move from a liquid environment
into a gaseous environment. The physiology of breathing happens in two phases. First is the mechanical
ventilation, and second is the cellular respiration. The process of mechanical ventilation is regulated by
the brain to physically move air in and out of the lungs so that oxygen and carbon dioxide can be
exchanged with atmospheric air. At the cellular level, respirations occur as a part of a process or a cycle
referred to as the citric acid cycle, which is also known as the Krebs’s cycle. During the citric acid cycle,
a series of reactions consume glucose, oxygen, and several other metabolic components to create 30
adenosine triphosphate (ATP) molecules. These ATP molecules are then used within the cell as a source
of energy for various cellular activities.
*Not necessarily word per word but the thought should be there.
Activity 4
The right and left sides of the heart work together. The pattern described below is repeated over and
over, causing blood to flow continuously to the heart, lungs, and body.

Right Side of the Heart

  Blood enters the heart through two large veins, the inferior and superior vena cava, emptying
oxygen-poor blood from the body into the right atrium of the heart.
 As the atrium contracts, blood flows from your right atrium into your right ventricle through the
open tricuspid valve.
 When the ventricle is full, the tricuspid valve shuts. This prevents blood from flowing backward
into the atria while the ventricle contracts.
 As the ventricle contracts, blood leaves the heart through the pulmonic valve, into the pulmonary
artery and to the lungs, where it is oxygenated and then returns to the left atrium through the
pulmonary veins.

 Left Side of the Heart

 The pulmonary veins empty oxygen-rich blood from the lungs into the left atrium of the heart.
 As the atrium contracts, blood flows from your left atrium into your left ventricle through the
open mitral valve.
 When the ventricle is full, the mitral valve shuts. This prevents blood from flowing backward
into the atrium while the ventricle contracts.
 As the ventricle contracts, blood leaves the heart through the aortic valve, into the aorta and to
the body.

*Not necessarily word per word but the thought should be there.