Body Systems
The smallest and narrowest blood vessel in the circulatory system
ventricle or capillaries
What is capillaries.
What type of muscle lines digestive organs and blood vessels?
smooth or skeletal
What are smooth muscles.
What are tiny air sacs in the lungs called?
dendrites or alveoli
What is alveoli.
The long tube that leads to the stomach is called?
What is an esophagus.
What muscle pumps blood through blood vessels?
What is heart.
Which body system is made up of the brain and spinal cord?
What is the central nervous system.
What type of muscles make up the walls of the heart?
smooth or cardiac
What is cardiac muscles.
What organ in the digestive system reabsorbs water from food?
small or large intestine
What is the large intestine.
What body system transports oxygen, nutrients, and wastes through the body in the blood?
What is the circulatory system.
What causes blood to clot when a blood vessel is cut?
white blood cells or platelets
What is platelets.
What are the basic units of the nervous system that relay information through electrical impulses?
neurons or receptors
What are neurons.
What is a gap between the axon of one neuron and the dendrite of the next neuron called?
synapse or dendrites
What is synapse.
What are characteristics that are passed from their parent to offspring called?
What is inherited trait (genes).
What are tubes that empty wastes into the bladder from the kidneys called?
ureters or sphincter
What is ureters.
What attaches bones to each other?
joint or ligament
What is ligaments.
What are vessels through which blood leaves the heart called?
arteries or veins
What is arteries.
What are the three types of muscles?
What are smooth, cardiac, and skeletal muscles.