Circulatory
The job of the circulatory system is to
What is to bring fresh blood to every part of your body
this brings oxygen & nutrients around to all parts of the body.
What is blood?
The windpipe through which air travels from the mouth and into the lungs.
What is the trachea?
This part of our model/particular material was representing the trachea and bronchi.
What is the bendy straw?
Name the three types of blood vessels
What is Arteries, Veins and Capillaries
This is the primary gas that enters our body when we inhale.
What is oxygen?
This chamber of the heart receives blood.
What is the atrium (or what are the atria, plural)?
The thin muscle under the lungs that plays an important role in breathing.
What is the diaphragm?
This part of our lung model represented the diaphragm.
What is the balloon stretched over the cup opening?
This gas is what we get rid of when we exhale.
What is carbon dioxide?
This is the site of gas exchange in the lungs.
What are the alveoli?
This part of our model represented a way to keep blood moving primarily in one direction.
What are non-return valves?
Each lung has a few sections called this (there are two on the left and three on the right).
What are lobes?
This is the large vessel that comes from the LEFT ventricle and carries blood to the body.
What is the Aorta?
This is what the primary air passageway divides into, creating the two major branches of the lungs.
What is the Bronchus?
This is the number of cups needed to represent a full circulatory system (including heart, body and lungs).
Oxygen and digested food work with your body to produce this (something we need)
What is Energy?
This part of the heart keeps the bloodflow moving in one direction.
What is a valve?
What is the nose and lungs
This is lower inside the body before breathing air in, and higher inside the body before breathing out.
What is air pressure?