The main function of the digestive system
What is to break down food?
The main function of the cardiovascular system
What is the transport of oxygen and nutrients throughout the body?
Main function of the respiratory system
What is the exchange of gases?
The three types of muscles
What is skeletal, cardiac, and smooth?
The system that controls and coordinates responses of the body
What is the nervous system?
Digestion begins here
What is the mouth?
Oxygen binds to this in the blood
What is red blood cell?
What is larynx?
The two types of muscle that are striated
What is cardiac and skeletal?
The organ that filters our blood
What is the kidneys?
Stool is formed in this organ
What is the large intestine?
Blood vessels that flow towards the heart
What is veins?
Where the exchange of gases occurs
What is alveoli?
Attaches muscle to bone
What is tendon?
What is hormones?
The wave-like muscle contractions of the digestive tract
What is peristalsis?
These prevent backflow of blood in the heart
What is valves?
This organ has cartilage rings
What is the trachea?
The type of muscle found in the digestive tract
What is smooth muscle?
Part of the neuron that sends out the transmitting signal
What is the axon terminal?
Two examples of how food is chemically digested in the body
What is saliva and stomach acid?
The strongest chamber in the heart
What is left ventricle?
During an asthma attack, these swell shut which makes it hard for air to pass through
What is bronchioles?
The arm bone attached to our thumb
What is the radius?
Hormone that regulates our blood sugar
What is insulin?