The Respiratory System
Allows us to breathe.
What is the respiratory system?
What is the heart?
Transports nutrients, oxygen and waste substances. Made up of plasma and blood cells.
What is blood?
The process of removing the waste substances produced in the body.
What is excretion?
When we breathe out, carbon dioxide is eliminated through...
What is the respiratory system?
Located inside the rib cage.
What are the lungs?
Carries nutrients and oxygen to the cells and collects waste products from the body.
What is the circulatory system?
These blood cells form a clot to stop the bleeding when we are wounded.
What are platelets?
This system is responsible for the production, storage and elimination of urine.
What is the urinary system?
This waste substance is eliminated through the skin.
What is sweat?
The diaphragm moves down and the chest muscles move outwards. The ribcage and the lungs get bigger.
What is inhalation?
Enters the atria.
What are veins?
These blood cells protect our bodies.
What are white blood cells?
This is where urine is stored.
Wnat is the bladder?
This organ removes toxins from our blood.
What is the liver?
The diaphragm moves up and the chest muscles move inwards. The ribcage and the lungs get smaller.
What is exhalation?
Leaves the ventricles.
What are arteries?
These blood cells carry oxygen.
What are red blood cells?
These two organs are located at the back of the abdomen and are responsible for forming urine.
What are the kidneys?
This tube carries the urine from the bladder to outside the body.
What is the urethra?
This gas in the alveolus passes into the blood.
What is oxygen?
The blood travels from the heart to the lungs and back again.
What is pulmonary circulation?
The blood travels from the heart to the body, except the lungs, and back again.
What is systemic circulation?
These two tubes carry the urine from the kidneys to the bladder.
What are the ureters?
Practice of these habits will help us look after our body systems.
What is physical exercise and a healthy diet?