Digestive System
What are the first two parts of the digestive system?
Mouth, Esophagus
What are the first two main parts of the respiratory system?
Nose/mouth, trachea (wind pipe)
What is the "main part" of the circulatory system?
Heart
What makes up the central nervous system?
brain and spinal cord
What is the functional unit that makes up all living organisms?
cells
What are the last three parts of the digestive system?
stomach, small intestine, large intestine
What are the tubes called that air goes through inside the lungs?
Bronchioles/ bronchiole tubes
What does a faster heart rate mean?
blood is flowing faster
What makes up the peripheral nervous system?
Everything that isn't the brain or spinal cord
What two things are needed for cellular respiration to occur?
glucose and oxygen
What are the structures that absorb nutrients, and where are they located?
villi, small intestine
What are the structures where gas is being exchanged in the lungs?
alveoli
What are the three types of blood vessels?
arteries, veins, capillaries
What is the cell that makes up the nervous system called?
neuron
What is the process that makes new cells called?
mitosis
What is the main job of the large intestine?
What two gases are exchanged in the lungs? Which is coming into the body and which is leaving?
carbon dioxide and oxygen
What substance picked up in the digestive system is carried in the blood?
glucose
What interprets all messages from the sense organs?
brain
What are the five phases of mitosis?
interphase, prophase, metaphase, anaphase, telophase
What are the main functions of the digestive system?
Break down food to parts usable by cells, Absorb those parts into the bloodstream
Why does respiratory rate increase during exercise?
cells need more oxygen and more carbon dioxide is needing to be removed from the blood.
The blood cells and the plasma
What are the three types of neurons? Where are they found in the body?
sensory (sense organs), motor (connected to muscles), interneurons (carrying messages to CNS/ make up CNS)
What is the genetic code that determines organisms physical traits? What does that organize into during mitosis?
DNA, chromosomes