Digestive System
The organ that removes water from food in the digestive system
What is the large intestine?
This is what nerve cells are called
What are neurons?
These are the smallest blood vessels?
What are capillaries?
Arguably the most important organ in the respiratory system
What are the lungs?
The longest organ in the human body
What is the small intestine?
The motion that moves food down the esophagus
What is peristalsis?
The most important organ in the nervous system.
What is the brain?
These blood vessels carry blood away from the heart
What are arteries?
The respiratory system works closely with this body system to supply all cells in our body with rich oxygenated blood.
What is the circulatory system?
When the doctor hits your knee with the little hammer they are looking for this system to react
What is the nervous system?
The part of the digestive system that absorb nutrients from food
What are the villi?
The five senses
What are seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, tasting?
The lower chambers of the heart
What are the ventricles?
The waste product of the respiratory system
What is carbon dioxide?
An infection of the bronchioles in the respiratory system
What is bronchitis?
The two types of digestion
What are mechanical and chemical digestion?
The space between neurons where messages are transmitted
What is a synapse?
The upper chambers of the heart
What are the atria?
These colors are used to depict the circulatory system.
What are blue (unoxygenated) and red (oxygenated)?
Explain how blood flows through the heart
The flap that allows food down the esophagus rather than the windpipe.
What is the epiglottis?
The two parts of your nervous system
What are the central (CNS) and and peripheral (PNS) nervous systems?
The first place blood enters the heart
What is the right atrium?
These tiny sacs facilitate the transfer of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the human body
What are the alveoli?
This system in plants is similar to the circulatory system in humans, in which it carries materials throughout the body.
What is the vascular system?