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Blood & Blood Vessels
Labs
100
The scientific name for pee.
What is urine?
100
The tube that carries air to your lungs
What is the trachea?
100
This type of involuntary muscle is found only in the heart.
What is cardiac muscle?
100
Any blood vessel traveling AWAY from the heart
What is an artery?
100
You breathe faster when you exercise because your body needs more of this.
What is oxygen?
200
The muscular sac that stores urine.
What is the bladder?
200
This muscle pulls down, helping you inhale
What is the diaphragm?
200
The collecting chambers of the heart
What is an atrium?
200
Any blood vessel traveling towards the heart
What is a vein?
200
The stopping and starting of blood flowing through your arteries with every heart beat
What is your pulse?
300
The organs that clean and filter the blood.
What are kidneys?
300
Another name for this organ is the "voice box."
What is the larynx?
300
The pumping chambers of the heart
What is a ventricle?
300
Tiny blood vessels that touch every cell in your body
What are capillaries?
300
This blood type is called the "universal donor" because it can donate to any other blood type.
What is Type O Blood?
400
The chemical filters in the kidneys.
What are nephrons?
400
Tiny, grape-like air sacs that make up the lungs, and transfer oxygen to the bloodstream
What are alvioli?
400
A "door" between different chambers in the heart
What is a valve?
400
The blood cells that carry oxygen
What are red blood cells?
400
We used a spirometer (made out of a 2 liter bottle and tubes) to measure this.
What is your lung capacity? ( or - the volume of air your lungs can hold in mL)
500
The tube by which urine leaves the body.
What is the urethra?
500
This part of you body helps warm, moisten and filter the air coming into your body.
What is the nose?
500
The wall of muscle that separates the two sides of the heart, so oxygenated blood does not mix with deoxygenated blood
What is the septum?
500
The fragments of cells that release fibrin, to make a scab or blood clot
What are platelets?
500
This blood type has both antibodies and can receive blood from anyone else
What is AB?