The Digestive system
The name of the two places mechanical and chemical digestion take place?
what is the Stomach and Mouth
The name of the "windpipe"?
What is the Trachea
Two factors that effect the way an enzyme works?
What is PH and Temperature
The three components of the Circulatory system?
What is the blood, blood vessels, and heart
The organs in the digestive system that are accessory organs, but aide in digestion?
What are:
Pancreas, Liver, and gallbladder
The Organ that creates bile?
What is the Liver
The process of oxygen from the alveoli flowing into the blood stream?
What is diffusion
The lock in the lock and key model is?
What is an Enzyme
There are how many chambers in the heart? Name them
What is 4 chambers:
right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, left ventricle
The color of blood comes from what reacting with the oxygen on the blood cell?
What is Iron (blood is literally rusting)
This is the organ that absorbs water and compacts waste to expel?
What is the Large intestine (colon)
The name of the structure that holds open the trachea and makes sound with vibrations?
What is the Larynx
An enzyme is a protein which means it has a coiled up structure similar to a curly ribbon, what happens to the structure when PH and temperature are too hot or acidic?
What is the enzyme or protein structure unravels
The structure of Blood is made of how many parts? (name them)
What are 4 parts:
Plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets
The sound of your heart beating actually comes from?
What is the opening and closing of valves in the heart
The small intestine is where most of our digestion occurs, how does the small intestine increase its surface area to absorb the most nutrients it can?
What are Villi (fingerlike projections)
The trachea is the main tube bringing oxygen to fill the lungs, the trachea has what type of rings keeping the structure stable?
What are cartilage rings
The name of the inside space in the lock and key model?
What is the Active site
The smallest blood vessels responsible for gas exchange?
What are Capillaries
The stomach holds very strong hydrochloric acids that could burn through the stomach lining, how come our stomach acid does not burn up daily?
What is a mucus layer that lines the stomach
This is the name of the muscle movements that push food through the esophagus, small intestine and large intestine?
What is peristalsis
The diaphragm is the muscle below the lungs, when the Diaphragm moves down, does air move in or out? (inhale or exhale)
What is air moves in (inhale)
The enzyme Lipase breaks down what?
Using context clues from the word, what could Lipase break down?
What are lipids
The name of the Largest Vein in the body?
What is the Vena Cava
The feeling of "heart burn" actually comes from gastric stomach acid flowing back up what structure?
What is the esophagus