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What are veins?
Blood travels towards the heart through these.
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What is the trachea?
This major passageway for air between your lungs and mouth/nose contains strong rings of cartilage for support and strength.
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Where is the mouth?
The mechanical breakdown of food begins here.
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What is the circulatory system?
Capillaries are in this system.
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What is the diaphragm?
This is the main muscle that controls breathing.
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What is the left ventricle?
This chamber of the heart has the most muscle surrounding it.
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What are bronchioles?
The left and right bronchus each branch off into these smaller passageways for air to travel.
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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.
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What is the respiratory system?
The larynx is in this system.
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What are valves?
These structures are embedded in the circulatory system to prevent blood from flowing in the opposite direction.
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What is the inferior vena cava?
A deoxygenated red blood cell returning to the heart from the lower body enters through this blood vessel.
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What is the epiglottis?
When you swallow, this flap reflexively closes off your airways so that food or liquid do not enter.
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What is bile?
This enzyme produced by the liver helps to chemically break down fats.
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What is the digestive system?
The gall bladder is in this system.
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What is 5 million?
This is about the number of red blood cells in one drop of blood.
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What are the pulmonary artery and the aorta?
These two blood vessels are known as the "Great Arteries".
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What are alveoli.
These tiny sacs are covered in capillaries and deliver oxygen to the bloodstream and remove carbon dioxide from it.
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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.
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What is the integumentary system?
Skin is the major organ in this system.
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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.
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What are platelets?
Blood is made of plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, and these clotting cells.
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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.
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What is peristalsis?
This process is when smooth muscle around the gastrointestinal tract contract in a rhythmic, coordinated way to push food through.
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What is the endocrine system?
The pituitary gland, hypothalamus, and thyroid are in this system.
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What is 206?
This is the number of bones in an adult human body (for the most part).
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