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These vessels carry blood toward the heart.
What are veins?
100
The heart has this many valves.
What is four?
100
Small sacks at the end of the bronchioles, where gas exchange takes place.
What are alveoli?
100
This was used to represent a lung inside of the syringe model.
What is a balloon?
100
A word that is spelled the same way backwards and forwards is called this.
What is a palindrome?
200
The liquid part of the blood.
What is plasma?
200
The name of the valve that leads to the lungs.
What is the pulmonic valve?
200
The space between the two membranes of the pleura.
What is the pleural cavity?
200
This substance was used to represent air in the sponge lab.
What is water?
200
This type of sunlight can damage your skin, and is able to be seen by insects.
What is ultraviolet light?
300
This blood vessel collects oxygen-poor blood from above the heart.
What is the superior vena cava?
300
DAILY DOUBLE! Blood that is oxygen-poor is pumped from this chamber into the lungs.
What is the right ventricle?
300
The diaphragm must do this in order for the body to exhale.
What is relax?
300
The amount of water that can be squeezed out of a sponge can be compared to this, in the lungs.
What is vital capacity?
300
These are made from dehydrated grapes.
What are raisins?
400
Red blood cells make up this percentage of your blood.
What is 55%?
400
The muscular wall that separates the two sides of the heart, and holds the entire structure together.
What is the septum?
400
Oxygen molecules move into the bloodstream, and carbon dioxide molecules move into the alveoli, using this process.
What is diffusion?
400
This is what causes the balloons to inflate in the syringe and bell jar model.
What is air pressure?
400
The number of warring dynasties in the Three Kingdoms era of Chinese history.
What is three?
500
This large artery splits into two, and lines the sides of your neck. It is possible to take your pulse here.
What is the carotid artery?
500
These large blood vessels feed blood to the muscle tissue of the heart itself.
What are the coronary arteries?
500
This rubber membrane at the bottom of an Iron Lung can be compared to the diaphragm of the human body.
What is a bellows?
500
The two flexible hoses on the siphon pump model represent these blood vessels.
What are the pulmonary artery and aorta?
500
The second labor of Hercules.
What is the Lernaean Hydra?