Circulatory System
This organ pumps blood through your body.
What is the heart?
This system helps you breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide.
What is the respiratory system?
This system breaks down food into energy.
What is the digestive system?
This disease happens when blood flow to the heart is blocked.
What is a heart attack?
This habit helps keep your heart strong and your body healthy.
What is exercise?
Blood carries this gas to your body’s cells.
What is oxygen?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
This tube carries air from your mouth or nose to your lungs.
What is the trachea?
Food travels down this tube to reach the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
This condition is when blood pressure is higher than normal.
What is high blood pressure?
This is what you should do before eating to prevent germs from entering your body.
What is washing your hands?
These tiny blood vessels are where oxygen is exchanged with carbon dioxide.
What are capillaries
These tiny air sacs in the lungs exchange oxygen with the blood.
What are alveoli?
This organ churns food and mixes it with acid.
What is the stomach?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
This disease affects how the body uses sugar (glucose).
What is diabetes?
Eating too much of this waxy substance can increase your risk of heart problems.
What is cholesterol?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
The two lower chambers of the heart that pump blood out are called these.
What are ventricles?
These branching tubes inside the lungs get smaller and are called bronchioles.
What are bronchioles?
This long organ takes nutrients out of food
What is the small intestine?
This condition happens when stomach acid moves into the esophagus.
What is acid reflux (GERD)?
DAILY DOUBLE!!
Breathing in this can trigger asthma attacks and harm your lungs.
What is cigarette smoke (or polluted air)?
Name one vessel that brings blood into the heart from the body.
What is the vena cava? (superior or inferior)
Explain what happens to bronchioles when you need more oxygen.
They expand (stretch/widen) to let more air in.
DAILY DOUBLE!!
Name one organ that helps the small intestine break down food.
What is the liver OR pancreas?
This disease happens when the immune system attacks the small intestine after eating gluten.
What is celiac disease?
Why is it important to take care of all your body systems (like circulatory, respiratory, and digestive)?
To keep your whole body healthy and working properly