Digestive System
This type of Feeder suck nutrient-rich fluids from a living host.
Fluid Feeders
Thin muscle at the base of the chest that causes breathing as it contracts and relaxes
Diaphragm
LARGE and powerful muscle
Found in the center of the body
Heart
the process by which animals regulate their internal temperatures despite external variations
Thermoregulation
Lung cells grow uncontrollably causes
Cancer
The tongue tastes the food, shapes the food into a ball called a
Bolus
What surrounds alveoli?
Capillaries
muscular central wall dividing heart into two halves, prevents oxygen-rich and oxygen-poor blood from mixing
Septum
Takes more energy to produce but makes up for saving water
Uric Acid
means the force of the blood flowing through the vessels is consistently too high
High Blood Pressure
The _________ stores food and breaks it down with acid and enzymes
Stomach
When you tighten the vocal chords the pitch gets ________
higher
muscular thick-walled lower chambers which pump blood from the heart
The kidneys consist of millions of filtering units called
Nephrons
Cough repeated lung infection, fatty stools, inabilty to gain weight
CF
Bile, made in the liver and stored in the_________.
Gallbladder
List 3 of the 6 functions of the respiratory system
absorb o2, remove co2, make sound, add moisture, warm air, clean air
Expansion and contraction of artery walls in response to heartbeat
Pulse
Tube that carries urine from the bladder out of the body
Urethra
Symptoms include pain, cloudy urine, blood in the urine, and swelling of the face legs and feet.
Nephritis
Blood from the digestive tract drains into the _________________ and then into the liver.
hepatic portal vein
Air travels through the organs in this order
nasal and oral cavity
pharynx
larynx
trachea
left and right bronchi
lungs
Contains iron, which is responsible for the red color of blood
Hemoglobin
Pair of tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder
Ureters
kidneys do not respond to a hormone, vasopressin, that helps balance the level of fluid in the body. This causes the body to make too much urine.
DIabetes Insipidus