To Breathe or not to Breath
The most important skeletal muscle when it comes to breathing.
Hint: The lungs are not muscles!
Diaphram
Any blood vessel carrying blood TOWARD the heart.
Veins
The human heart has _____ chambers.
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The scientific name for the body's "voice box".
Larynx
AKA The Wind Pipe
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Trachea
The tubes in the lungs that carry air are called ________________.
Bronchial Tubes
The pale, yellowish liquid part of the blood. It makes up the majority of blood.
Plasma
The entire cycle of a heartbeat--contraction and relaxation of the atria and ventricles.
Cardiac Cycle
Tubes that transport water from a plant's roots to the rest of its parts.
Xylem
Incredibly small air sacs.
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Aveoli
Body organ that allows aquatic animals to get the oxygen they need from the oxygen dissolved in water.
Gills
A web of thread-like proteins that seals off an injury to a blood vessel - clotting the blood.
Fibrin
Large artery connected to the left ventricle that carries the oxygenated blood out to the body.
Aorta
Tubes which transport food from a plant's leaves to the rest of its parts.
Phloem
Required to break food down.
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Oxygen
Little sacks on the ends of the bronchioles where carbon dioxide is released and oxygen is absorbed.
Alveoli
These veins take oxygenated blood back to the heart (from the lungs), so it can be pumped to the rest of the body.
Pulmonary Veins
The top chamber of the heart that receives oxygenated blood from the lungs.
Left Atrium
The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen.
Hemoglobin
The air we breathe in is 78% ________________.
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Nitrogen
State two diseases caused by smoking.
Emphysema and COPD
Produced by white blood cells and released into the body and fight pathogens.
Antibodies
The bottom chamber of the heart pumps deoxygenated blood out to the lungs.
Right Ventricle
Thin folds of tissue that stretch across the sides of the larynx and vibrate as air passes over them.
Epiglottis
Found in the nasal cavity.
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Cilia