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Respiratory System
Excretory System
Blood
Circulatory System
Immunity and Disease
100
This is the process of bringing air into the lungs and removing waste gases.
What is breathing?
100
This system controls blood volume by removing excess water produced by body cells during respiration.
What is the urinary system?
100
These are the tiny disc-shaped objects floating in blood.
What are red blood cells?
100
In this section of the Circulatory System, blood flows to and from the tissues of the heart.
What is Coronary Circulation?
100
This virus attacks the immune system by entering Helper T cells, causing them to burst and entering more, eventually destroying the body's ability to produce B cells which store antibodies.
What is HIV?
200
This process converts oxygen and glucose to carbon dioxide, water and energy.
What is cellular respiration?
200
Numbering around 1 million, these are tiny filtering units found on the surface of each kidney.
What are nephrons?
200
This is the force exerted on the walls of the blood vessels as it flows through the body.
What is blood pressure?
200
List 3 types of pathogens.
What are bacteria, fungi, and viruses?
300
In this disorder, a person's bronchial tubes contract quickly, leaving the person short of breath.
What is asthma?
300
These tubes lead from each kidney to the bladder
What are ureters?
300
These leave the blood through the capillaries and go into body tissue to destroy bacteria and viruses.
What are white blood cells?
300
In this disease, fatty deposits build up on artery walls and prevent the flow of oxygenated blood through the body.
What is atherosclerosis?
300
In this type immunity, the body is able to produce its own antibodies, whereas in passive immunity, the antibodies are produced in an animal and given as medicine.
What is active immunity?
400
In this disease, the alveoli become enlarged, leaving them unable to push air out of the lungs and oxygenate the blood.
What is emphysema?
400
This part of the brain monitors and regulates the amount of water in the blood.
What is the hypothalamus?
400
Dissolved nutrients, oxygen and minerals are here to be carried to the body's cells.
What is the plasma?
400
This system functions similar to the circulatory system in that a fluid flows through to remove excess fluid, waste, debris, dead blood cells, pathogens, cancer cells, and toxins from these cells and the tissue spaces between them.
What is the lymphatic system?
400
This is a first-line defense against pathogens, as it secretes acidic oils and fluids that will kill them.
What is the skin?
500
This muscle is found beneath the lungs and contracts and relaxes to help move gases into and out of the lungs.
What is the diaphragm?
500
This process is used by doctors to filter the blood when a both of a person's kidneys fail.
What is dialysis?
500
In this disorder, clotting factors are missing from the blood and the individual's blood is unable to clot, raising the risk of bleeding to death.
What is hemophilia?
500
Name the 3 types of blood vessels.
What are arteries, veins and capillaries?
500
In Type 2 of this disease, the body cannot properly process insulin.
What is Diabetes?