Circulatory System Respiratory System Digestive System Which System Is It In? Miscellaneous
100
What are veins?
Blood travels towards the heart through these.
100
What is the trachea?
This major passageway for air between your lungs and mouth/nose contains strong rings of cartilage for support and strength.
100
Where is the mouth?
The mechanical breakdown of food begins here.
100
What is the circulatory system?
Capillaries are in this system.
100
What is the diaphragm?
This is the main muscle that controls breathing.
200
What is the left ventricle?
This chamber of the heart has the most muscle surrounding it.
200
What are bronchioles?
The left and right bronchus each branch off into these smaller passageways for air to travel.
200
What is the gastrointestinal tract?
This is the name we give to the entire passageway through which food travels from when it first enters our body to when it leaves.
200
What is the respiratory system?
The larynx is in this system.
200
What are valves?
These structures are embedded in the circulatory system to prevent blood from flowing in the opposite direction.
300
What is the inferior vena cava?
A deoxygenated red blood cell returning to the heart from the lower body enters through this blood vessel.
300
What is the epiglottis?
When you swallow, this flap reflexively closes off your airways so that food or liquid do not enter.
300
What is bile?
This enzyme produced by the liver helps to chemically break down fats.
300
What is the digestive system?
The gall bladder is in this system.
300
What is 5 million?
This is about the number of red blood cells in one drop of blood.
400
What are the pulmonary artery and the aorta?
These two blood vessels are known as the "Great Arteries".
400
What are alveoli.
These tiny sacs are covered in capillaries and deliver oxygen to the bloodstream and remove carbon dioxide from it.
400
What is are villi and microvilli?
These fingerlike projections in the small intestine contain capillaries and is where nutrients from digested food is absorbed into the bloodstream.
400
What is the integumentary system?
Skin is the major organ in this system.
400
What is the olfactory system?
The nasal cavity is not just part of the respiratory system, but also part of this sub-system of the nervous system that is responsible for your sense of smell.
500
What are platelets?
Blood is made of plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, and these clotting cells.
500
What are cilia?
These hair-like projections trap dust and pathogens into globs of mucus and sweep it away from the lungs to be coughed up.
500
What is peristalsis?
This process is when smooth muscle around the gastrointestinal tract contract in a rhythmic, coordinated way to push food through.
500
What is the endocrine system?
The pituitary gland, hypothalamus, and thyroid are in this system.
500
What is 206?
This is the number of bones in an adult human body (for the most part).






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