Respiratory System
This part of your body helps you breathe and is located in your chest.
What are the lungs?
This is the part of your body where digestion begins, and it's responsible for chewing and saliva production.
What is the mouth?
The process of taking air into the lungs and releasing it is called this.
What is breathing or respiration?
This is the part of the digestive system that turns food into a thick liquid before it moves to the small intestine.
What is the stomach?
Your lungs are made up of about this many alveoli.
What is...
A. 150 million?
B. 300 million?
c. 50 million?
This muscle helps you breathe by moving up and down.
What is the diaphragm?
This is the tube that carries food from your mouth to your stomach.
What is the esophagus?
This substance in your stomach helps break down food and kill germs.
What is stomach acid or hydrochloric acid?
This part of your body helps to warm, moisten, and filter the air before it goes to your lungs.
What is the nose?
This is the amount of saliva the average person produces in one day.
What is 1-2 liters?
This is the tube that connects your throat to your lungs and carries air.
What is the trachea?
This organ absorbs most of the nutrients from the food we eat.
What is the small intestine?
This is the process where food is broken down in the stomach by digestive juices and enzymes.
What is digestion?
This organ helps filter the air you breathe and is located in your nose.
What are the nasal passages?
This organ in the digestive system can regenerate if part of it is damaged.
What is the liver?
These are tiny air sacs in the lungs where oxygen is exchanged for carbon dioxide.
What are the alveoli?
This organ produces digestive juices and insulin to help digest food and control blood sugar.
What is the pancreas?
This process happens in both the digestive and respiratory systems, where gases or nutrients move from one place to another.
What is absorption?
This is a small organ that stores bile, which helps digest fats.
What is the gallbladder?
This muscle, used for breathing, is shaped like a dome.
What is the diaphram?
This organ helps filter the air you breathe and is located in your nose.
What are the nasal passages?
This organ stores bile before releasing it to help digest fats.
What is the gallbladder?
A series of wave-like muscle contractions that move food through the digestive tract.
What is peristalsis?
This is the valve that controls the flow of food from the stomach to the small intestine.
What is the pyloric sphincter?
Food takes about this amount of time to travel through the entire digestive system.
What is 24-72 hours?