The Heart
The Blood
Vocabulary
Miscellaneous
Respiratory System
100
The number of chambers in a mammal's heart
What is four?
100
The blood cells are produced here.
What is bone marrow?
100
This transports nutrients and chemicals around the body by the blood.
What is the circulatory system?
100
An entire cycle of a heartbeat.
What is the cardiac cycle?
100
Little round sacs that are covered in capillaries.
What is alveoli?
200
Deoxygenated blood flows into this chamber first.
What is the right atrium?
200
These cells transport oxygen from the lungs to the tissues and contain hemoglobin.
What are the red blood cells?
200
A blood vessel that carries blood back to the heart.
What is a vein?
200
Tubes in plants that transport water up the plant
What are xylem?
200
When you exhale air, the air passes through the trachea or pharynx first?
What is the trachea?
300
The blood next gets dumped into this chamber
What is the right ventricle?
300
These cells are responsible for protecting the body from agents of disease.
What are white blood cells?
300
Tiny, thin-walled blood vessels that allow the exchange of gases and nutrients between the blood and cells located between arteries and veins.
What is a capillaries?
300
The process by which blood seals wounds to keep it from leaking out an injured artery.
What is blood clotting?
300
The most important of the skeletal muscles controlling the process of breathing.
What is the diaphragm?
400
The blood goes to the lungs and returns oxygenated and is dumped into this.
What is the left atrium?
400
The only blood vesels in which oxygen exchange occurs.
What are capillaries?
400
A blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart.
What is an artery?
400
These cells are in the blood and aid with blood clotting.
What are platelets?
400
Two thin folds of tissue that stretch across the sides of the larynx.
What are the vocal cords?
500
The blood finally goes into this before being pumped to the body.
What is the left ventricle?
500
This makes up the majority of blood.
What is plasma?
500
Large veins that returns all of the blood back to the heart.
What is the superior and inferior vena cava?
500
The special muscle that involuntarily pumps blood.
What is the cardiac muscle?
500
This type of sound is determined by how tight your vocal cords are while the air passes over them.
What is the pitch?
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