•Each organ in every organism has a job or a “function”.

•The structure or “form” of each organ is somehow related to this function.

•Look at the following organs and consider their form and functions

separately.

Click on the hotlink at the top of each of the following 4 slides and read the text about each structure.

Organ Job

1. Capillaries

2. Heart

3. Human Skull

4. Lungs

As you read about each organ, copy the table into your notebook and fill out the table’s blank “Job” column as you click on the links and read.

http://www.innerbody.com/image/dige02.html

http://www.innerbody.com/image/card02.html

Top view of infant and adult

http://www.innerbody.com/image/skel02.html

Now go back and pick one part of each organ’s structure that helps it do it’s job.

Organ Structure

1. Capillaries

2. Heart

3. Human Skull

4. Lungs

Click back on the links and reread the text. Copy the table above and complete the blank column with a description of this structure.

Now we know the “job” of each of these organs and how its “shape” helps it do its job.

•SO, how does each organ’s structure, shape or FORM enable it to do its job or FUNCTION?•Copy the sentences on the following slide into your

notebook and use the information from the first

two tables you already completed.

FORM follows FUNCTION

1. The capillary’s_________________ enables

it to do it’s job of

_________________________

because______...

2. The heart’s_________________ enables it

to do it’s job of

_________________________ because

______...

3. The skull’s_________________ enables it

to do it’s job of

_________________________ because

______...

4. The lungs’_________________ enables it

to do it’s job of

_________________________ because

______...

Structure/FORM

Structure/FORM

Structure/FORM

Structure/FORM

Job/FUNCTION

Job/FUNCTION

Job/FUNCTION

Job/FUNCTION