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Digestion
Anatomy of digestion
Respiration
Anatomy of respiration
Circulatory
100
This is the digestive process also known as eating.
What is ingestion?
100
This is the place where food enters the digestive system.
What is oral cavity?
100
This is another name for the process of breathing in.
What is inhalation/inspiration?
100
This is the highly branched organ that is the main player in the respiratory system.
What is the lungs?
100
These are the top chambers of the heart.
What are atria?
200
This is the type of digestion that occurs in the small intestine.
What is chemical?
200
This is where the food goes after it leaves the esophagus.
What is the stomach?
200
This system is tied tightly with the respiratory system to deliver gases throughout the body.
What is the circulatory system?
200
This is also known as the windpipe.
What is the trachea?
200
This is the type of blood found in the aorta.`
What is oxygenated?
300
This is the liquid material found in the stomach that is the product of digestion to that point.
What is acid chyme?
300
This is the primary site of water absorption.
What is the large intestine?
300
This is the primary gas that is inhaled?
What is oxygen?
300
This is the common passageway for food and air before air gets to the trachea.
What is the pharynx?
300
These are the smallest vessels that have walls that are only one cell layer thick.
What are capillaries?
400
This is the product of the liver and used in fat digestion.
What is bile?
400
This is the primary site of nutrient absorption.
What is the small intestine?
400
After gases are inhaled and transported through the body what happens next?
What is delivery to body cells?
400
This is the name of the branches of the trachea.
What is bronchi?
400
This is the structure where the blood goes after it leaves the right ventricle.
What is the pulmonary arteries?
500
These are inorganic materials that are important co-factors in nutrition.
What are minerals?
500
This is the involuntary muscle movement that propels food through the digestive system.
What is peristalsis?
500
This is the part of the brain that helps regulate blood CO2 levels.
What is the hypothalamus?
500
This is the name of the air sacs in the lungs that look like clusters of grapes.
What are alveoli?
500
This is the patch of tissue that helps regulate the rhythm of the heart beat.
What is the sinoatrial node (SA node)?