Cardio 12.2
What is the main function of the cardiovascular system?
What is to transport oxygen, nutrients, and waste throughout the body?
What is the main function of the respiratory system?
What is to supply oxygen to the blood and remove carbon dioxide from the body?
What is the main function of the integumentary system?
What is to protect the body, regulate temperature, and sense the environment?
What is the main function of the immune system?
What is to defend the body against pathogens?
What is 206?
Name the major organ that pumps blood through the body.
What is the heart?
Name the organ that connects the throat to the lungs.
What is the trachea?
What is the largest organ of the body?
What is the skin?
Name the cells that attack and destroy pathogens.
What are white blood cells.
What is the main organ of the Nervous system?
What is the brain?
What type of blood vessels carry blood away from the heart?
What are arteries?
What are the tiny air sacs where gas exchange occurs?
What are alveoli?
Name the layers of skin.
What are the epidermis and dermis?
How do people get antibodies? (2 ways)
What is being sick, getting a vaccine.
Where do messages ENter the neuron?
What are dentrites?
What are the chambers of the heart?
What are the right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle?
What muscle helps with breathing by contracting and relaxing?
What is the diaphragm?
What do sweat glands do?
What is to help cool the body?
What are the two ways that bacteria can spread?
What is direct and indirect contact?
What is the name of the flap of skin that keeps food from going down the trachea?
What is the epiglottis?
Name the 4 ingredients that make up your blood.
What is RBC, WBC, plasma, platlets
What is the name of the illness when the alveoli are infected?
What is pnemonia.
What is the name of the substance that give skin it's color?
What is melanin.
Define the three lines of defense.
What is 1st (skin, mucus, etc)
What is 2nd - inflammation
What is 3rd - immune system
What are the three types of muscles?
What is skeletal, smooth, cardiac