The Respiratory System
The tube that connects the mouth and nasal passages to the bronchi and lungs.
What is the trachea?
Arteries, Capillaries and Veins
What are blood vessels?
Components of the blood that help it clot when there is an injury.
What are platelets?
The main function of the kidneys.
What is to filter blood?
Part of the brain that helps with balance and coordination.
What is the cerebellum?
Specialized cell that helps transport oxygen and carbon dioxide around the body.
What is a red blood cell?
The heart is made up of this type of muscle.
What is cardiac muscle?
Physical separation method for separating blood.
What is centrifugation?
Three main ways which we can excrete things out of our body.
What are the lungs, urine, and through sweat?
2 organs that make up the central nervous system.
What is the brain and spinal cord?
The flap of tissue that prevents food from travelling down the trachea.
What is the epiglottis?
The four chambers of the heart.
What are the left atrium, right atrium, left ventricle, and right ventricle?
The fluid that surrounds the cells of the body.
What is interstitial fluid?
What is the urethra?
This structure is located at the base of your brain and controls vital and continual processes such as breathing, beating of your heart, and digestion of food.
What is the brainstem?
The location of the vocal cords.
What is the larynx?
The largest artery in the body that carries oxygen-rich blood out of the left ventricle and away to the rest of the body.
What is the aorta?
The function of white blood cells in the body.
What is attack and defend against invading pathogens in the body?
A molecule that is the result of the breakdown of proteins in the body.
What is urea?
The longest part of a neuron.
What is an axon?
Gas exchange occurs across the walls of alveoli through this process.
What is diffusion?
Vessels that bring oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart.
What are the pulmonary veins?
What is a universal donor?
The innermost part of the kidney.
What is the Medulla?
Neurons that receive and send impulses to the brain or spinal cord
What are sensory neurons?