Systems
What is the Digestive system?
The system that breaks down food for cells to use.
What is the Respiratory system?
Organ system that captures oxygen from the atmosphere to keep us alive.
What are cells?
The basic building blocks of all living organisms.
What are Veins?
The type of blood vessel that carries blood back toward the heart.
What does the oesophagus do?
Pushes food from the mouth to the stomach.
What is a joint?
The place where two bones meet.
What are the four main jobs of the Skeletal System?
Support, Protect, Move, Create blood cells.
What is the Diaphragm?
The sheet of muscle that operates the lungs.
What are the muscular and skeletal systems?
These two systems work together to enable us to move.
What does the small intestine do?
The organ that absorbs most of the nutrients using small fingerlike structures called villi.
What is the spinal cord?
A bundle of nerves that go to and from the brain.
A muscle is made up of thousands of elastic ____________ bundled together?
Tissues.
Which organs make up the circulatory system?
Heart and blood vessels.
What is the Stomach?
Organ that contains acid and breaks food down.
Give examples of Chemical and mechanical digestion?
Gastric juices, hydrochloric acid in stomach or saliva in mouth.
Teeth chewing or stomach churning.
What are the organs that filter your blood?
Kidneys and Liver.
What is peristalsis?
the relaxing and contracting of the oesophagus to push food down to the stomach.
What are the three categories of muscle tissue?
Smooth, Skeletal and Cardiac.
What is the Vertebral column?
These bones not only support your body but also protect your spinal cord.
How is carbon dioxide related to the circulatory system?
A waste gas that is transported in veins from the body to the lungs via the heart.
What is the liver?
This organ produces bile to help break down fat and helps with cleaning blood from toxins.
What are Bronchi?
The large "branches" off of the trachea.
What is the order of blood flow through the body?
Left atrium, left ventricle, Pulmonary veins, lungs, Right atrium, right ventricle, body.
What are Alvoli?
The small sacks inside your lungs.
What is the Heart?
This organ of the circulatory system is composed of completely cardiac muscle tissue and pumps blood around the body.
These two pipes share an opening at the back of your throat...one pipe/tube takes food to the stomach, the other pipe/tube takes air to the lungs. What are they?
Oesophagus and Trachea.
What is your Trachea?
The large tube that carries oxygen and CO2 between your lungs and mouth.
What is the gall bladder?
Organ that stores bile.
How do bile and fats work together?
Bile breaks this down to make it easier to digest.
What is the large intestine?
The organ that removes excess water from waste.