The Heart
This organ pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
These carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
Digestion starts here with chewing and saliva.
What is the mouth?
This organ produces bile to break down fats.
What is the liver?
The system that transports oxygen and nutrients.
What is the circulatory system?
These structures prevent blood from flowing backward in the heart.
What are valves?
These carry blood back to the heart.
What are veins?
This organ uses acid and enzymes to break down food.
This organ uses acid and enzymes to break down food.
This small organ stores bile.
What is the gallbladder?
The system that breaks down food into nutrients
What is the digestive system?
The top chambers of the heart are called these. (What are atria?)
What is Atriums
These tiny vessels exchange oxygen and nutrients with body cells. They also tie together a Vein and Artery.
What are capillaries?
This tube carries food from the mouth to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
This organ produces enzymes to digest proteins, fats, and carbs.
What is the pancreas?
The digestive system provides these to the circulatory system.
What are nutrients?
This side of the heart pumps oxygenated blood to the body.
What is the left side?
The blood cells that fight infections
What are white blood cells?
The long, coiled organ where most nutrients are absorbed.
What is the small intestine?
The green liquid that helps digest fats.
What is bile?
The circulatory system delivers this gas to help cells use nutrients.
What is oxygen?
Name the pathway blood takes through the heart.
What is right atrium → right ventricle → lungs → left atrium → left ventricle → body?)
The yellow liquid part of blood that carries nutrients and waste.
What is plasma?
This organ absorbs water and forms solid waste.
What is the large intestine?
Fingerlike projections in the small intestine that absorb nutrients.
What are villi?
Explain how the digestive and circulatory systems work together.
What is digestion provides nutrients and the circulatory system delivers them to cells?