Digestive System
What is the mouth?
I tear food into smaller pieces and begin to turn starch to sugar. I make bites of food more liquid so they can move on to the digestive tract.
What is the trachea?
I am the tube that connects the throat and the bronchial tubes.
What are arteries?
Vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
The transfer of food from the digestive system takes place at the _______________ lining of the small intestine.
inner
What is diffusion?
This process causes oxygen to pass from the alveoli into the capillaries.
What is the stomach?
I squeeze food and churn it up, mixing it with digestive juices that break it into smaller bits.
What is the diaphragm?
The large band of muscle that controls the size of the chest cavity.
What are capillaries?
The smallest vessels where gases, nutrients and wastes enter or leave the bloodstream.
What are villi?
Covering the surface of the lining of the small intestine are millions of tiny, almost "finger-like" projections called?
What are capillaries?
Alveoli are surrounded by a web of ______________ and this is where gases are exchanged.
What is the large intestine?
Its function is to absorb water from the remaining indigestible food matter, and then to pass useless waste material from the body.
What is the bronchi?
The two branches of windpipe.
What is the pulmonary artery?
Blood leaves the heart and goes to the lungs to get oxygen in this vessel.
What is absorption?
Dissolved food particles pass from the small intestine into the capillaries by this process.
What is oxygen?
______________ and carbon dioxide pass back and forth between the air in the alveoli.
What is the small intestine?
vast majority of digestion and absorption of food takes place here.
What is alveoli?
The grape like air clusters in the lungs that store oxygen.
What is the pulmonary vein?
Oxygenated returns to the heart through this vessel.
What is the small intestine?
The organ where the digestive and circulatory system come in contact?
What are the lungs?
The organ where the respiratory and circulatory system come in contact?
What is the liver?
I produce bile that is stored in the gallbladder to be secreted into the small intestine before eventually leaving the body.
What are the lungs?
The two large lightweight respiratory organs which expand when you breath in.
What is the aorta?
Once the blood is oxygenated the blood flows to your entire body through this artery.
What are the capillaries and villi?
What are the parts of the circulatory and digestive system that work together? I am looking for TWO parts.
What are the capillaries and alveoli.
What are the parts of the circulatory and respiratory system that work together? I am looking for TWO parts.