Voicing Vocab
Digging Digestion
Rocking Respiration
Citing Circulation
Loving Lymphatic
100

The measurement of energy found in food, is called what?

Calories
100
The system that breaks down food and absorbs nutrients, is called what?

The digestive system

100

The system that takes oxygen into the body and removes carbon dioxide is called what?

The respiratory system

100

The system that transports nutrients and gases through the body.

The circulatory system

100
The system that collects plasma that leaks out of your blood, cleans it of pathogens and returns it to the heart, is called what?

Lymphatic system

200

Bread, cereal, desserts, and starchy vegetables are good sources of what nutrient?

Carbohydrates

200

Digestion starts in the mouth with what kind of digestion?

mechanical digestion

200

What is the point of the nasal cavity?

warm and moisten incoming air

200
This organ is used to move nutrients and gases around the body.

the heart

200
Plasma that leaks out of the capillaries is called this.

Lymph

300
The material used to stop blood flow in an emergency, is called what?

Platelets

300

Most nutrients absorption happens in what organ? 

the small intestine

300
The organ that stops food from entering your lungs and contains your vocal cords, is called what?

larynx

300
The passages that move blood toward the heart are called _________, one that move blood away from the heart are called_________?

veins, arteries

300

Which of these organs is not a part of the lymphatic system? Lymph nodes, spleen, lymph vessels, thymus

All are a part of the lymphatic system

400

The material that is used to transport nutrients, minerals, proteins, hormores, and other substances throughout your body, is called what?

plasma

400

Foods in the stomach is broken down into _________ using enzymes and acid.

Chyme

400

When your diaphragm contracts it creates what in your chest cavity, allowing you to intake air.

a vacuum

400
Blood continues to flow in one direction due to special organs called __________?

Valves

400

The organ were your white blood vessels mature, most active during childhood, is called what?

Thymus

500

The name of the process of muscles contracting and relaxing in your esophagus that moves food to the stomach, is called what?

Peristalsis

500

The liver produces bile that is stored in what organ?

the gallbladder

500

The need to breath more during physical activity increases due to the body's need to do what?

remove carbon dioxide

500

Blood returning from the body enters the heart trough the ___________?

right atrium

500

Lymph flows the system by the movement of what?

Your muscles tensing and relaxing

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