Take a Deep Breath!
The main organ of the pulmonary system.
What are the lungs?
This organ is divided into 4 chambers.
What is the heart?
This major organ of the nervous system has 3 main compartments.
What is the brain?
The digestive process starts here.
What is the mouth?
The esophagus deposits the food here.
What is the stomach?
This helps break up the food in the stomach.
What are acids?
These are found in saliva and help break down food in the mouth.
What are enzymes?
This gas is inhaled from the atmosphere and sent to the lungs.
What is Oxygen?
This is the name of the upper chambers.
What are atrium?
This part of the brain is an extension of the spinal cord.
What is the brain stem?
Enzymes found in this fluid help to start the breaking down of food.
What is saliva?
These blood vessels transport blood AWAY from the heart.
What are arteries?
This type of blood vessel transports blood toward the heart.
What are veins?
The largest artery in the body.
What is the aorta?
This gas is expelled from the lungs.
What is Carbon Dioxide?
This is the name of the lower chambers.
What are ventricles?
Nerves are made up of millions of cells called these.
What are neurons?
This is the tube that brings food from the mouth to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
These tiny sacs in the lungs are surrounded by capillaries.
What are alveoli?
The air goes from the trachea onto TWO of these.
What are bronchial tubes?
This muscle separates the right and left side of the heart.
What is the septum?
The tube that the oxygen travels down to get to the lungs.
What is the trachea?
This side of the heart receives oxygen RICH blood.
What is the left side?
This part of the brain controls emotions.
What is the cerebrum?
Food goes here after it leaves the stomach.
What is the small intestine?
When this muscle contracts it draws air into the nose and mouth.
What is the diaphragm?
This part of the nervous system receives and relays information and is made up of millions of nerves.
What is the spinal cord?
The bronchial tubes branch into these smaller tubes.
What are bronchioles?
The single-celled blood vessels where oxygen is exchanged for Carbon Dioxide.
What are capillaries?
The right ventricle pumps the blood through these arteries on its way to the lungs.
What are the pulmonary arteries?
These type of nerves bring messages from the outside environment to the brain.
What are sensory nerves?
Bile made by the liver is stored here.
What is the Gall Bladder?
This type of nerve carries instructions to the muscles.
What is a motor nerve?
This is the major job of the large intestine.
What is to absorb the water out of the remaining food?
Each neuron has this long trunk.
What is an axon?