Blood Vessels
Heart
Blood
Respiratory
Misc.
100
Largest artery in the body
What is aorta
100
A hallow muscular organ that pumps blood throughout the body
What is the heart
100
The body's disease fighters!
What is white blood cell
100
Your windpipe.... also what you feel with ridges when you feel your neck
What is trachea
100
Lungs: What is this called
What is Bronchi
200
carry blood away from the heart
What are arteries
200
Wall that prevents oxygen rich and oxygen poor blood from mixing
What is the septum
200
Iron containing protein that sticks to oxygen... found in red blood cells
Hemoglobin
200
Also known as your "throat" nose and mouth connect to this
What is pharynx
200
Expansion and relaxation of your artery... blood flowing through... you can feel this.
What is pulse
300
Where materials are exchanged between blood and body's cells
What are capillaries
300
The two upper chambers of the heart
What is atrium
300
Liquid part of the blood... 90% water
What is plasma
300
2 main functions of the respiratory system
Moves oxygen from outside environment into body Removes carbon dioxide from the body
300
DOUBLE BONUS: The gas that takes up 78% of the air we breathe
What is nitrogen
400
The blood vessel that carries oxygen rich blood from the lungs to the heart
Pulmonary vein
400
Heart Diagram
What is ventricle
400
these are fragments or pieces of red blood cells
What are platelets
400
"Grapes" tiny sacs of lung tissue that specialize in the exchange of gas between air and blood
What is alveoli
400
3 main functions of the circulatory system
1. Delivering needed materials 2. Removing waste products 3. Fighting Diseases
500
Two major veins that bring blood back from upper and lower body
What are superior and inferior vena cava
500
Where does the blood that enters the left atrium come from?
Oxygen Rich Blood from Lungs
500
BONUS: 4 differences between white and red blood cells
fewer, larger, live longer, have a nuclei
500
When diaphragm moves down what happens to the rib cage and lungs
Rib Cage moves out, lungs inflate
500
HEART: What is this called
inferior vena cava
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