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Destination Circulation
Just Breathe...
The Story about the Excretory
Mmmm...Digestion
Pass the "P"s Please
100
The main organ of the circulatory system
What is the heart?
100
This waste is not something you want hanging around in your body. That's why the Respiratory System helps get rid of it.
What is carbon dioxide?
100
This is the waste that the excretory system removes from the body
What is ammonia?
100
Food travels through this, which leads to the stomach
What is the esphogas
100
This organ is responsible for the production of a fluid that neutralizes stomach acid
What is the pancreas?
200
The heart has four of these
What are chambers?
200
As you breathe air through your nose, two things happen. It is filtered and warmed. What parts filter and warm the air?
What are nose hairs and capillaries?
200
Ammonia is changed to urea in this part of the body
What is the liver?
200
These are made of acid and chemicals
What are gastric juices
200
This is the liquid part of blood, which is made up of water, dissolved nutrients, and waste products.
What is plasma?
300
This type of blood comes from the lungs to the heart, where it will be pumped around the body.
What is oxygen-rich blood?
300
At the end of the bronchial tubes, these tiny air sacs can be found.
What are alveoli?
300
Urine is made up of these three things
What is urea, water, and other waste products
300
Nutrients diffuse through this to enter into the blood
What are villi?
300
This is the job of the liver...it is necessary to break down fats in digestion
What is produce bile?
400
The job of the red blood cells
What is to absorb oxygen and transport it around the body?
400
This is how oxygen and carbon dioxide get from the alveoli to the capillaries and vice versa.
What is diffusion?
400
Urea and water enter the kidneys through these tubes
What are nephrons?
400
After nutrients have diffused through the villi, this where leftover undigested food goes to be removed from the body.
What is the large intestine?
400
These clot blood and help repair damaged blood vessels
What are platelets?
500
Blood leaves the heart through blood vessels called...
What are arteries?
500
Air travels down this tube to get into your chest. Give the scientific name and the nickname.
What is the trachea or windpipe?
500
This is how excess heat is eliminated from your body
What is sweating?
500
These are the two jobs of the digestive system
What are to break food into nutrients and to get nutrients into the blood?
500
The capillaries surrounding the alveoli get blood from these arteries, which come from the heart
What are pulmonary arteries?