Digestive & Excretory Systems
Respiratory & Circulatory System
Plants
Plants Cont'd
Food Related
100
This is where the first step in the process of digestion takes place.
What is the mouth?
100
Where does the blood from the body enter in the heart to eventually send it to the lungs for oxygen?
What is the right atrium?
100
When classifying plant leaves, a scientist looks at these three things.
What is the color, blade shape, venation, or leaf margins? (Name three)
100
Name the excess sugar that is made in the leaves.
What is sap?
100
Carbohydrates made of these three types of atoms.
What are carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen?
200
In the first step of digestion, these two things occur.
What is breaking food down into smaller pieces and mixing with saliva to make a bolus.
200
These vessels carry blood from the heart to the body.
What are the arteries?
200
Leaf cells contain this molecule that give them their green color?
What is chlorophyll?
200
These are the tubes that sugary water flows through, from the leaves to all the plant cells that do not make their own food.
What are the phloem tubes?
200
Give two examples of types of sugar found in various foods.
What is glucose, lactose, fructose, or dextrose?
300
Name the specific purpose of the small intestine.
What is where nutrients are absorbed into the capillaries of the intestinal wall?
300
This part of the circulatory system carries oxygen, food and nutrients to EVERY CELL (hing) of the body.
What are the capillaries?
300
These tubes transport water and minerals to all cells in the plant; old ones form the wood of a tree.
What are the xylem tubes?
300
This is the reason that plants produce their own food.
What is to provide food and energy to the cells of the plant?
300
This is the process where plant cells break down their food, or sugar.
What is cellular respiration?
400
What organ receives 20% of blood from the heart so it can filter waste from the blood.
What are the kidneys?
400
These vessels carry oxygenated blood from the lungs back to the heart.
What are the pulmonary veins?
400
Name the process that occurs in plants that breaks down sugar molecules.
What is cellular respiration?
400
Vascular plants have specialized structures that are groups of phloem and xylem tubes.
What are vascular bundles?
400
Nutrition is divided in to six groups. Name three of these groups.
What are carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals or water?
500
The two ways the stomach performs "digestion".
What is releasing gastric juices and muscle contraction of the stomach walls. (Chemical & mechanical)
500
The purpose of this system is to exchange gases with the atmosphere.
What are the lungs?
500
What three items need to be present for plants to make their own food.
What is CO2, H2O, and sunlight?
500
These are the three products of photosynthesis.
What are sugar molecules, oxygen and water?
500
This disease affects the body's ability to use glucose correctly with the help of the organ, the pancreas.
What is diabetes?
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