Skeletal System
The anatomical term for the collar bone.
What is the clavicle?
The skull protects this organ.
The brain.
The two vessels that transport blood through the body.
What are veins and arteries?
The first process that breaks food down into into smaller pieces during digestion.
What is chewing?
Oxygen is inhaled and this gas is exhaled.
What is carbon dioxide?
The two bones of the forearm.
What are the radius and ulna?
The two components of the central nervous system.
What is the brain and the spinal cord?
The colour of veins.
What is blue?
This is where urine is stored in the body.
What is the bladder?
The two passageways through which air travels as we inhale and exhale.
What are the nose and mouth?
The two bones of the lower leg.
Vertebrae in the back protect this structure.
What is the spinal cord?
The number of compartments in the heart.
What is four?
The tube in the digestive system that goes from the mouth to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
The name of the tube that goes from the mouth to the lungs.
What is the trachea?
How many bones are there in the adult skeleton?
What is 206?
The artery that pumps blood from the left side of the heart to the body.
What is the aorta?
The action that propels food from the mouth to the stomach.
What is peristalsis?
The flap that keeps food from entering your respiratory system when you swallow.
What is the epiglottis?
The location of the smallest bones in the human body.
What is the ear?
The information that afferent nerves carry from the periphery to the brain.
What is sensory information?
The name of the vein which blood passes through right before it re-enters the heart.
What is the vena cava?
The digestive tract consists of the esophagus, stomach, and these two other parts.
What are the small intestine and the large intestine?
The number of lobes that the right lung has.
What are three lobes?