These structures found in most animals are composed of cells that have the same function.
What are tissues?
100
These organisms (two classes) have three-chambered hearts.
What are reptiles and amphibians?
100
Alveoli have tons of _______ ______, giving them lots of space for diffusion to occur across.
What is surface area?
100
This blood vessel leaves the left atrium and brings oxygenated blood towards the body.
What is the aorta?
100
Emphysema refers to damaging of the ______.
What are alveoli?
200
This hormone causes your liver and cells to take in glucose and store it as glycogen.
What is insulin?
200
This chamber of the heart has the thickest walls of all four chambers.
What is the left ventricle?
200
These vertebrates do cutaneous respiration because their lungs are not as efficient as mammalian lungs.
What are amphibians?
200
This structure is also referred to as the windpipe.
What is the trachea?
200
Name something that can cause chronic bronchitis besides smoking.
What is air pollution/toxins in your environment?
300
This term describes organisms that must consume nutrients from other sources, rather than produce them themselves.
What is heterotrophic?
300
These are structures found in veins that are not found in arteries.
What are valves?
300
During inhalation, the diaphragm ______.
What is contracts/flattens?
300
This valve is located in between the left atrium and the left ventricle?
What is the mitral valve/bicuspid valve?
300
This type of procedure is used to extract and observe cells to see if they are cancerous.
What is a biopsy?
400
Humans are able to cool themselves by increasing the diameter of the blood vessels underneath their skin in order to lose more heat via diffusion. This process of the blood vessels getting wider is called:
What is vasodilation?
400
These components of the circulatory system work to clot blood.
What are platelets?
400
This is the term for the "voice box".
What is the larynx?
400
This term refers to "little veins".
What are venules?
400
Heart attacks are caused because of clogging of what blood vessel?
What is the coronary artery?
500
The human body has three major mechanisms for maintaining homeostasis of blood pH: changing breathing rate, filtering in the kidneys, and:
What are blood buffers?
500
Excess carbon dioxide in the blood makes your blood acidic because carbon dioxide can form ______ in water.
What is carbonic acid?
500
Birds have these structures that enable them to take air into their lungs, regardless of whether they are inhaling or exhaling.
What are air sacks?
500
Blood passes through this valve as it heads towards the body.
What is the aortic valve?
500
This type of a stroke is caused by ruptured blood vessels in the brain, leading to brain bleeding.