Lesson 9 (blood vessels)
Lesson 11 (Digestion)
Lesson 13 (Urinary system)
Lesson 14 (heart and lungs)
Lessons 16 & 17 (Fracastoro & Gesner)
100
These are the vessels that pulse with each heartbeat
What are the arteries?
100
This is the entire process in your body by which food is broken down into chemicals your body can use.
What is digestion?
100
These are bean-shaped organs which clean the blood and produce urine.
What are kidneys?
100
Vesalius discovered that the human heart is slightly more on this side of the body.
What is the left?
100
These tiny, invisible things are what Fracastoro believed caused sickness.
What are "particles"?
200
These blood vessels are found more superficial in the body (closer to the skin).
What are the veins?
200
This is the name of the group of organs in your body that food moves through.
What is the digestive tract?
200
This is the organ that holds the urine produced by the kidneys.
What is the bladder?
200
This lung has more lobes.
What is the right lung?
200
Conrad Gesner was one of these - someone who is fascinated by the natural world and studies nature.
What is a naturalist?
300
The color of the blood in these blood vessels is bright red.
What are arteries?
300
These are organs which aid in digestion, but no food moves through them.
What are accessory organs?
300
These two words are used to refer to the kidneys, bladder, and ureters all together.
What are "urinary system"? (or renal system)
300
Vesalius called this tube which takes air from the mouth to the lungs the "rough artery".
What is the trachea?
300
This is what a pencil lead is really made of.
What is graphite?
400
This is the name of the artery we felt pulsing in our neck during our experiment in class.
What is the carotid artery?
400
This is the digestive organ through which we absorb most of the nutrients in our food.
What is the small intestine?
400
A simple filter works because of these very small openings.
What are "tiny holes"?
400
This is an educated guess about what will happen in an experiment.
What is a hypothesis?
400
This is the name for the study of plants.
What is botany?
500
This was one of the reasons that Vesalius thought that the arteries and veins were not part of the same system in the body (not connected).
What is: "he saw that the blood in the arteries and veins were different colors" or "he saw that the arteries pulsed but the veins did not pulse".
500
This accessory organ secretes yellow bile for the digestion of fats.
What is the liver?
500
This is what natural philosophers in Vesalius's day thought the kidneys looked like on the inside.
What is "it had two chambers separated by a simple filter"?
500
This is the part of the experiment that you don't change.
What is the control?
500
These are the three ways that Fracastoro thought diseases were spread.
What is: 1. by touching sick people 2. by touching the clothing or bedding of sick people 3. by being close to sick people
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