Introduction
This system is made up of a variety of blood vessels, like arteries, veins, and capillaries
What is the circulatory system?
The type of blood cells involved in immune response.
What are white blood cells?
The site of gas exchange.
This intestine has the larger diameter and absorbs water.
What is the large intestine?
Another name for the 'voice box'
What is the larynx?
The system of the body including the stomach
What is the digestive system?
The term for the branch of the circulatory system that connects the heart to the lungs.
What is pulmonary?
This large muscle contracts to create more space in the rib cage, facilitating inhalation.
What is the diaphragm?
This is the site of most nutrient absorption.
What is the small intestine?
The enlarged pad on a male frog's forelimb
What is the nuptial pad?
What is homeostasis?
The chambers of the heart that receive blood.
The anatomical name for the windpipe.
What is the trachea?
The term describing the rhythmic contraction of the esophagus that moves food.
What is peristalsis?
The name of the pipe that carries food to the stomach
What is the esophagus?
The system of the body containing the diaphragm.
What is the respiratory system?
This binds with iron to help transport oxygen.
What is hemoglobin?
The process that occurs in the lungs as a result of the concentration gradients between oxygen and carbon dioxide.
What is diffusion?
The gallbladder, liver and pancreas don't ever receive food but are part of the digestive system. They are examples of this.
One main difference between arteries and veins
What is: arteries carry blood away from the heart, high pressure, veins carry blood towards the heart, low pressure.
There are 11 main body systems, even though we only closely studied 3. Two others are:
What are the [endocrine, skeletal, muscular, urinary, integumentary, nervous, lymphatic, reproductive] systems
This is the largest artery in the body.
What is the aorta?
The trachea branches into two of these before moving into the lungs
What are bronchi?
These two organs are the site of mechanical digestion.
What are the mouth and stomach?
The two small teeth located in the top of the frog's mouth
What are the vomerine teeth?