SMN
What your skeleton is made of
What are bones?
The name of the body system that breaks down food and absorbs the nutrients into the blood
What is digestive system?
The gas in the air that your respiratory system carries TO your cells
What is oxygen?
The fist-sized organ that pushes your blood around your body
What is "heart"?
The name of the liquid that carries oxygen and nutrients to your cells
What is blood?
The "C" word for when your muscles shorten/tighten
What is "contract"?
The name of your "food tube" between your mouth and stomach
What is "esophagus"
The gas in your cells that your respiratory system removes from your body
What is carbon dioxide?
The name of the thin-walled, low-pressure tubes that carry blood back to your heart
What are veins?
The name of the thick-walled, high pressure tubes that carry blood away from your heart
What are veins?
The name of the "automatic" body movement controlled by your spinal cord (and not controlled by your brain!)
What is "reflex"?
The type of digestion that involves food being physically ground up by teeth (and your stomach)
What is mechanical digestion?
The burning of food - that does NOT happen in your respiratory system
What is Respiration?
The part of your blood that carries oxygen and carbon dioxide
What are red blood cells?
The part of your blood that clogs up holes in your tubes (but can also cause clots)
What are "platelets"?
The type of muscle that moves your food and poo through your digestive system, and lines your arteries to give you blood pressure
What is "Smooth muscle"
The longest part of your digestive system - where most of your digestion takes place
What is small intestine?
The name of your "windpipe" between your mouth and lungs
What is trachea?
The name of the type of circulation that carries blood through your lungs (the "lung loop")
What is Pulmonary circulation?
The name of the circulation that carries blood to your body cells (your "body loop")
What is systemic circulation?
The "A" word for what happens at your joints when your bones move relative to each other
What is "articulate"?
The organ responsible for absorbing water out of your poo and into your blood
What is the large intestine?
The term for gasses like oxygen and carbon dioxide being "traded" in the lungs
What is "gas exchange"?
The "V" word that is the name of your tubes (arteries, veins and capillaries)
What is "vascular"?
The name of the clear, slightly yellow part of your blood that carries nutrients and waste
What is "plasma"?