Circulatory System
What is blood made up of?
Red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets and plasma.
How is sweat excreted through the skin?
Through pores.
What is the name of the mixture made from the food we eat and our saliva?
Bolus
When we breathe in the oxygen through our nose or mouth, what part of the body does it travel through next?
Trachea
What are the 5 types of nutrients we've learned?
Carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, and minerals.
What are the three types of blood vessels and what are their purposes?
Arteries: Carry blood with oxygen from our heart to the rest of our body.
Veins: Carry blood with carbon dioxide from our body to the heart.
Capillaries: Connect arteries and veins.
How do our kidneys filter blood?
They separate it into clean blood and urine.
What organ of the digestive system absorbs water in our waste and sends it to our blood?
The large intestine
What are the tubes of the trachea called?
Bronchi
Olives, avocados, nuts, seeds, fish, egg yolks, etc.
What are the four main chambers of the heart?
Left and right atrium's
Left and right ventricles
Fill in the blanks:
The clean blood goes back to our heart through the ____? And our urine goes to our ___ through tiny tubes called______?
The clean blood goes back to our heart through the renal vein? And our urine goes to our bladder through tiny tubes called ureters?
What breaks down the bolus in our stomach and what does it turn into?
Gastric juices turn the bolus into chyme.
The smaller tiny tubes are called our bronchioles and they end in tiny sacks called the what?
Alveoli
Humans cannot produce their own nutrients, this makes us....
Heterotrophs
What is circulation?
Blood flows around the body in two loops.
All our blood passes through the what?
Renal arteries in our kidneys
Fill in the blanks:
We send the bolus through to our stomach with the ____. And the _____ stops food going down our windpipe.
We send the bolus through to our stomach with the esophagus. And the epiglottis stops food going down our windpipe.
What do the capillaries that surround our alveoli do?
They move red blood cells that take the oxygen from the air and release the carbon dioxide
Which organ can you find the vena cava?
The heart
Explain the Pulmonary loop and Systemic loop.
Pulmonary: blood flows from the heart to the lungs and then back to the heart expelling the carbon dioxide and picking up oxygen.
Systemic: blood flows from the heart to the rest of the body delivering oxygen to all the cells and tissues and picking up carbon dioxide and waste.
Fill in the blank:
Once our bladder is full, we release the urine through our ____?
Once our bladder is full, we release the urine through our urethra?
What is chyme mixed into?
Bile from the liver.
Pancreatic fluid from the pancreas.
What carries the oxygen to all of our body while the carbon dioxide is released out of our body through our nose and mouth when we exhale?
Red blood cells
What system relies on the pancreas?
The digestive system