The Respiratory System
Another word for breathing in is _________________.
What is inspiration (or inhalation)?
The ___________ is pumped by the heart through arteries, veins, and capillaries.
What is blood?
Also called the oral cavity, this body part opens to the outside and empties into the throat.
What is the mouth?
The ___________ prevent your body from becoming contaminated with liquid waste.
What are kidneys?
AMUECCAULT
What is accumulate?
Another word for breathing out is _________________.
What is expiration (or exhalation)?
The heart is divided into _______ chambers.
What is 4?
The tube that carries food from the mouth into the stomach is called the:
What is the esophagus?
The kidneys are connected to the heart by the ___________ arteries.
What are renal?
WORD SCRAMBLE: This word means "To pollute or mix with unwanted substances."
NTOMCTNAEIA
What is contaminate?
The area of the body enclosed by the breastbone, ribcage, and diaphragm is called the ________________.
What is the thorax?
The ______________ bring deoxygenated blood TO the heart FROM the body.
What are veins?
After it has been thoroughly digested, food takes on a thick, soupy consistency and is called __________.
What is chyme?
Sweat glands are located in the skin's _________________.
A) Epidermis
B) Dermis
C) Fatty layer
What is dermis?
This word means "lacking melanin, the pigment that gives skin its color."
HINT: You would use it to describe the white alligators we met at the farm last Friday.
What is albino?
The trachea splits off into two tubes called _______________.
What are bronchi?
The ___________ take oxygenated blood AWAY from the heart TO the lungs and cells of the body.
The hormone secreted by the pancreas to help body cells use sugar after sugar has been absorbed by the blood is called ___________________.
What is insulin?
The final storage of liquid waste for the body is the:
What is the bladder?
Because it affects the nose, throat structures, and lungs, COVID-19 is an example of a _______________ illness.
A) digestive
B) respiratory
C) circulatory
D) excretory
Respiratory
The bronchi lead into the lungs where they split off into narrower and narrower tubes, the narrowest of which are known as:
A) BRONCHIOLES
B) BRONCHI
C) ALVEOLI
What are bronchioles?
The exchange of gas and nutrients occurs at the level of the:
a) arteries
b) veins
c) capillaries
What are capillaries?
When the involuntary muscles around the middle and lower parts of the stomach begin squeezing movements, this process is known as:
a) digestion
b) peristalsis
c) secretion
c) mitosis
What is peristalsis?
About __________% of the blood leaving the heart enters the kidneys.
What is 25% (or 1/4th?)
The microscopic, honeycomb-like air sacs at the end of each bronchiole in the lungs are called __________________.
What are alveoli?