Introduction
This system is made up of a variety of glands including the thyroid and pituitary that secrete hormones.
What is the endocrine system?
The type of blood cells involved in immune response.
What are white blood cells?
The site of gas exchange.
This intestine has the larger diameter.
What is the large intestine?
This diet involves eating like a caveman/woman.
What is the paleo diet.
The system of the body including the spinal cord.
What is the nervous system?
The term for the branch of the circulatory system that connects the heart to the lungs.
What is pulmonary?
This large muscle contracts to create more space in the rib cage, facilitating inhalation.
What is the diaphragm?
This is the site of most nutrient absorption.
What is the small intestine?
The type of diet with the motto "If you cook it, you kill it."
What is a raw food diet?
What is homeostasis?
The chambers of the heart that receive blood.
The anatomical name for the windpipe.
What is the trachea?
The term describing the rhythmic contraction of the esophagus that moves food.
What is peristalsis?
This type of scan was used to measure body composition in Marathon Challenge.
What is DEXA?
The system of the body containing the spleen.
What is the lymphatic system?
This binds with iron to help transport oxygen.
What is hemoglobin?
The process that occurs in the lungs as a result of the concentration gradients between oxygen and carbon dioxide.
What is diffusion?
The gallbladder, liver and pancreas don't ever receive food but are part of the digestive system. They are examples of this.
This is the term for the state your body goes into when you eat a very low carbohydrate diet.
What is ketosis?
This is the type of loop involved in most homeostatic mechanisms in our bodies.
What is a negative feedback loop?
Along with heart rate, this is used to calculate "cardiac output".
What is stroke volume?
What is chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?
These two organs are the site of mechanical digestion.
What are the mouth and stomach?
What is Mississippi?