System Vocabulary | The Digestive System and Vocab | The Respiratory System and Bonus Qs | The Circulatory System and Bonus Q | The Excretory System and Bonus Qs |
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What are veins?
These are the blood vessels that transports blood toward the heart.
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What is pushing food downwards?
By touching your esophagus you can feel it doing this.
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What is diffusion?
This takes place when oxygen and carbon dioxide pass through the alveoli.
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What is because you need those red cells to carry oxygen and remove carbon dioxide.
The reason why we have more red blood cells than white blood cells
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What is because they filter harmful waste out of the blood and regulate blood pressure?
Why having working kidneys are important.
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What is the circulatory system?
This transportation system moves food and oxygen to the body's cells; it then takes away cell wastes.
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What is mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine
If you traced your food's journey through the digestive system from beginning to end, the first 5 components would be in this order
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What is when sugar and oxygen move into a body cell, they come in contact with mitochondria. Then the oxygen reals down the sugar and releases energy.
- produces water and carbon dioxide; blood cells carry the carbon dioxide back to the lungs where it is
A detailed description of cellular respiration process.
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What is plasma (clear liquid in which red and white blood cells float), red blood cells (carry oxygen to the body), white blood cells (fight off infection and diseases), and platelets (help blood to clot and stop bleeding).
The names and descriptions of the four "ingredients" of blood.
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What is the circulatory system?
The transport system made up of the heart, blood cells, and blood
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What are the kidneys?
The bean-shaped organs that filter waste out of the blood.
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What is both have bumps/folds to absorb nutrients.
The small intestine is similar to a beach towel in this way.
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What is because they don't have the teeth needed to grind, pierce, and chew food.
Why babies need to eat softer foods
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What is that arteries carry blood away from the heart and veins carry blood toward the heart?
How arteries are different from veins.
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What is sweat?
The clear waste product that leaves the body through the pores of the skin
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What is the skeletal system?
This consists of 206 bones and provides structure and support for the human body.
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What is the small intestine?
This organ completes digestion and allows undigested food to enter the blood
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What is oxygen and carbon dioxide?
The gases we: 1) inhale and 2) exhale
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What is because those blood cells deliver carbon dioxide and pick up oxygen
Why the heart pumps blood into the heart
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What are urine (bladder), sweat (pores), feces (rectum), carbon dioxide (lungs)?
The four types of waste produced by the body and their point of origin
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What is the urethra?
It's the channel through which urine is transferred from the bladder.
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What is the diaphragm?
This muscle expands and contracts to fill and empty the lungs.
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What is inflates the lungs,brings air in and pushes carbon dioxide out
How the diaphragm regulates breathing
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What is because it's a byproduct produced by the breakdown of sugar
Why water is considered a waste product during cellular respiration
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What is because the useful materials can get right into the bloodstream and go to where the body needs them?
Why nephrons are surrounded by capillaries.
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