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Exploring the Body's Systems
Circulatory & Cardiovascular
Digestive & Excretory
Nervous & Endocrine
Muscular & Respiratory
100
A balanced, stable environment within the body would be called _______________
What is homeostasis?
100
Blood vessels that carry oxygen-depleted blood back to the heart are ________________
What are veins?
100
The process of breaking down food and making it usable for the body is called ________________
What is digestion?
100
The ______________ release hormones when we are under certain types of stress.
What are the adrenal glands?
100
A passageway the carries air to the lungs is called the ______________
What is the trachea?
200
The basis building blocks of the body are called _________
What are cells?
200
The liquid portion of the blood
What is plasma?
200
The passageway responsible for carrying food to the stomach is the ____________________
What is espophagus?
200
"Chemical messengers" released by the glands of the endocrine system are called ________________
What are hormones?
200
The heart muscle could also be called the _________________ muscle
What is cardiac?
300
Most digestion and absorption of nutrients takes place in the _____________ intestine.
What is small?
300
The portion of the blood that causes clotting
What are platelets?
300
The portion of the digestive tract responsible for waste functions is the _____________________
What is large intestine?
300
The rate at which the body metabolizes food is controlled by hormones released from the _________________
What is the thyroid gland?
300
The ____________ is often referred to as the throat
What is the trachea?
400
Similar cells organized into specialized groups to carry out particular functions could be called _________________
What are tissues?
400
Blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood away from the heart
What are arteries?
400
The long muscular tube which includes many digestive functions throughout the body is the ________________ canal.
What is alimentary?
400
Human growth hormone is release by the __________________ gland
What is the pituitary?
400
Muscles found in the digestive system and blood vessels are referred to as ___________________
What are smooth muscles?
500
An ____________ exists when two or more tissues are grouped together to perform a particular function.
What is an organ?
500
The force placed against the inside walls of your blood vessels
What is blood pressure?
500
The small flap of skin that prevents food from entering the trachea is the _________________
What is epiglottis?
500
The _____________ cleanse the blood of impurities and send it back to the bloodstream (Excretory system)
What are the kidneys?
500
The _________________ are the principle organs of the respiratory system
What are the lungs?