The Respiratory System
The Circulatory System
Blood
The Lymphatic System
Misc.
100
This structure prevents food from entering your lungs when you swallow and contains your vocal cords
What is the larynx?
100
The pulmonary arteries and pulmonary veins connect the heart, and this
What are the lungs?
100
The fluid portion of the blood, more than half of your blood is made up of this
What is plasma?
100
Leaked plasma
What is lymph?
100
Your heart has this many chambers
What is four?
200
This is the main passageway to your lungs, also known as the windpipe
What is the trachea?
200
Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart
What are arteries?
200
The pressure of circulating blood against the walls of the arteries
What is blood pressure?
200
This organ is most active in your childhood and greatly reduces in size during your early teen years.
What is the thymus?
200
This measures how quickly your heart is beating
What is your pulse?
300
This structure warms and moistens air as it enters the respiratory system
What is the nasal cavity?
300
These return blood to the heart
What are veins?
300
Most blood cells are formed here
What is bone marrow?
300
This structure recycles red blood cells and produces white blood cells
What is the spleen?
300
Arteries branch into small vessels called this
What are capillaries?
400
What are bronchi?
400
These prevent blood from flowing in the wrong direction
What are valves?
400
Red blood cells are missing this cellular structure
What is a nucleus?
400
These filter dead cells, viruses, bacteria, and other particles from lymph
What are lymph nodes
400
Your diaphragm and rib muscles do this when you exhale
What is relax?
500
This tells your body to increase your breathing rate
What is the amount of carbon dioxide in your blood?
500
The muscular chambers that pump blood to the lungs or body
What are ventricles?
500
This blood component provides defense against foreign substances
What are white blood cells?
500
The lymphatic system relies on these to squeeze lymph through the lymph vessels
What are muscles?
500
Carbon dioxide and oxygen pass between the alveoli and capillaries by this
What is diffusion?
600
When you do this, your diaphragm contracts and your chest cavity enlarges.
What is inhale?
600
The large vessel that branches into many smaller arteries to supply blood to the entire body
What is the aorta?
600
These clump together to form blood clots
What are platelets?
600
Lymph rejoins this at one of two large veins on either side of your body near your collarbone
What is the blood stream?
600
This is responsible for delivering oxygen and removing carbon dioxide from cells throughout the body
What is systemic circulation?