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Vocabulary
Immune System
Disease
Body Parts
Grab Bag
100
From French to "move away" from ease.
What is disease
100
The general type of cells in the circulatory system that protect the body.
What are white blood cells?
100
The largest killer of males in America.
What is heart disease?
100
Your heart is part of this system.
What is your heart?
100
The two US Interstates that run through the Bronx.
What are 87 and 95
200
The idea that things are connected
What is interconnectedness
200
Cilia hold this gooey substance that helps catch germs in your throat or nostrils.
What is mucus?
200
An inability to manage blood sugar homeostasis.
What is diabetes?
200
Where arteries meet veins to transfer oxygen and pick up carbon dioxide.
What is a capillary?
200
The leading all time scorer in NBA history.
Who is Kareem Abdul Jabbar?
300
The process of converting oxygen and sugar into energy
What is resiration
300
The medication you get to prevent you from getting a virus.
What is a vaccine?
300
A disease the adaptive immune system has a hard time fighting because it's made up of organisms own cell type.
What is cancer?
300
You lungs are part of this system.
What is respiratory?
300
The closest neighborhood to JFK in Manhattan.
What is Inwood?
400
The opposite of respiration, when plants convert carbon dioxide and water back into sugar using sunlight.
What is photosynthesis?
400
Medicine that kills bacteria.
What are antibiotics?
400
The body system that controls hormones.
What is the adrenal system?
400
The new Mayor of New York.
Who is Bill Deblasio
500
When a person already has the antibody to a disease and can not be effected by a pathogen. They have this property.
What is resistance.
500
The white blood cells that are programmed to find specific antigens and help defeat them in your body.
What are t-cells?
500
Where atherosclerosis occurs in the body
What is in the arteries surrounding the heart (coronary arteries)?
500
The name for one of the five appendages on your hand.
What is a finger?
500
The capital of New York state.
What is Albany?