Nutrients and Digestion
Digestion begins in this part of the body.
What is the mouth?
This fluid contains cells that transport oxygen throughout the body.
What is blood?
Through specialization, neurons lost their ability to do this, so you probably shouldn’t sniff markers or glue.
What is repair, reproduce, and/or heal?
This is Mr. Rasnick's one word definition for homeostasis.
What is balance?
These organs, full of nephrons, filter the blood of urea and produce urine before sending it to the bladder for excretion.
What are kidneys?
Acids in this organ are the second stage of chemical digestion.
What is the stomach?
This gas is a waste product of cellular respiration.
What is carbon dioxide?
A bundle of nervous tissue in the central nervous system, this column of up to meter long nerves carries messages from the brain to the rest of the body.
What is the spinal cord?
These chemicals might give your body the first signal you should stop eating.
What are hormones?
Along with gasses, the lungs also remove excess of this liquid waste from the blood stream and use it to hydrate the mouth and nose.
What is water?
Don't flip out. Along with filtering the blood of waste and creating urea, the liver also produces this substance used in digestion.
What is bile?
This liquid is produced by a gland in the integumentary system to aid in maintaining body temperature and excreting urea.
What is sweat?
This gap between neurons is the space in which neurotransmitters pass from one nerve to another to send a message?
What is a synapse?
If your body detects a toxin in your digestive system, the stomach may induce this process to restore homeostasis.
What is vomiting?
The liver produces urea from the breakdown of red blood cells and these used nutrients vegetarians obtain from beans.
What are proteins?
These nutrients, both simple and complex, are the body's primary source of energy.
What are carbohydrates?
This fluid, found throughout the body protects various soft tissues of the respiratory and digestive system from acids, punctures, and dehydration.
What is mucus?
These branched structures receive messages sent by axons.
What are dendrites?
If your body temperature exits the healthy range, your body may sweat to lower your body temperature or do this to raise your body temperature.
What are shiver or form goosebumps?
Carbon dioxide waste passes into the lungs via this process: the movement of a substance from high concentration to low concentration.
What is diffusion?
Of the six types of nutrients, this one is the most important to life, as it is used in every living cell.
What is water?
This liquid, sometimes a part of the circulatory system and sometimes in a system of its own, helps to isolate intruder cells from the blood and contains them in nodes before they are removed.
What is lymph?
This is the portion of the nervous system protects your body by acting before your brain learns you are in pain.
What is the autonomic nervous system?
If your body senses you need to restore homeostasis through drinking water, your muscular system might help by doing this.
What are walk to the water fountain and/or pick up your drink?
These narrow blood vessels are where waste is collected from other parts of the body before being carried to the lungs, kidneys, liver, or skin.
What are capillaries?