Gas Exchange
This is the element that your red blood cells carry to various parts of your body.
What is Oxygen?
These living things produce oxygen for us as humans.
What are plants and trees?
This is the main source in energy we get from our environment.
What is food?
These are the organs that hold the air we breath in.
What are lungs?
The most important organ in the circulatory system, also a hollow muscular pump.
What is a Heart?
What are the atomic symbols for oxygen and carbon dioxide?
What are O2 and CO2?
3rd most abundant element and makes up 21% of earths atmospheric gas.
What is oxygen?
This is the form of energy used when nutrients are broken down in our body.
What is ATP?
The main purpose of the respiratory system.
What is to breath?
This disease can occur when the heart has too much stuff blocking its passage ways.
What is a heart attack?
One of the main reasons capillaries are able to transfer more and more blood. (hint it is commonly found in math)
What is Surface Area?
Process in which living things exchange gases in the environment.
What is Respiration?
The powerhouse of the cell.
What are Mitochondria?
These are the 2 main points oxygen can enter our system.
What are the nose and mouth?
This stuff travels around our body and delivers important nutrients to the body's cells.
What is blood?
Process of which air moves in and out of the lungs.
What is Ventilation?
Oxygen binds to these molecules to act as a carrier around the body.
What is Hemoglobin?
2 forms of cellular respiration.
What are anaerobic and aerobic?
This is the muscle that helps your lungs pull in air and push air out.
What is the Diaphragm?
A main purpose of the system is to keep body ____ constant, also called thermoregulation.
What is temperature?
The movement of particles to high to low areas of concentration.
What is Diffusion?
Fish use these to filter oxygen into their bodies.
What are gills?
There are 4 stages of Cellular Respiration: Glycolysis, Preparatory Reaction, Citric Acid Cycle, and _____.
What is Electron Transport Chain?
There are 3 main parts of your throat, the Epiglottis, the Pharynx, and the _____.
What is the Larynx?
This barrier keeps harmful microbes from reaching the brain why allowing certain molecules through, like water.
What is the blood brain barrier?