Body systems

Question 1

What type of digestion is chemicals produced by the body breaks down the food into their smaller chemical building blocks or enzymes?

Answer 1

Chemical

Question 2

When your body gets ready to eat and it increases the production of saliva or

Answer 2

Spit

Question 3

Your esophagus is lined with ______

Answer 3

Mucus

Question 4

What is the process in which food is move down the esophagus by waves of muscle contractions?

Answer 4

Peristalsis

Question 5

What type of acid helps break down food as well as killing many bacteria that you swallow with your food. The stomach is lined with mucus to protect it from this acid

Answer 5

Hydrochloric Acid

Question 6

Almost all _______ Digestion and _________ nutrients takes place in the small intestine

Answer 6

Chemical

Absorption

Question 7

For digestion what does the liver produce that is a substance that breaks down fat particles and where is it stored?

Answer 7

Bile

Gallbladder

Question 8

What does the pancreas produce that then breaks down the fat chemically

Answer 8

Enzymes

Question 9

What are millions of tiny finger shaped structures filled with tiny blood vessels. These greatly increase surface area of the intestine making it about the size of a tennis court

Answer 9

Villi

Question 10

The large intestine contains what this substance feeds off material passing through. This material is also helpful because it produces vitamin K

Answer 10

Bacteria

Question 11

As remaining materials move through large intestine, what is absorbed into the bloodstream?

Answer 11

Water

Question 12

The large Intestine ends with a short tube called the what, where the remaining waste materials are compressed into a solid form.

Answer 12

Rectum

Question 13

One of the circulatory system’s jobs is to move substances through the blood. What is that also called?

Answer 13

delivering needed materials.

Question 14

One of the jobs of the circulatory system is to remove _______ material

Answer 14

Waste

Question 15

One more job of the circulatory system is to fight _______

Answer 15

Diseases

Question 16

What is the heart

Answer 16

A hollow muscular organ that pumps blood throughout the body

Question 17

The two upper chambers called _________ which receive blood into the heart

Answer 17

Atrium’s

Question 18

Two lower chambers called ________ which pump blood out of the heart

Answer 18

Ventricles

Question 19

What is an artery

Answer 19

An artery is a thing that carries blood away from the heart either to the lungs or body

Question 20

What are the three components of blood

Answer 20

Plasma- The liquid part of blood
Red blood cells- part to take the oxygen for transport
White blood cells- The “soldiers” of the blood that attack Microorganisms into the body

Question 21

What are the jobs of the respiratory system

Answer 21

Taking in oxygen

Removing carbon dioxide and water

Question 22

What do cells in the nasal cavities have? And the definition

Answer 22

Cilia- tiny hairlike structures that sweep mucus down to your throat where you swallow and acid destroys the mucus

Question 23

As they move into the lungs they divide into smaller and smaller tubes in a pattern that resembles the branches of a tree __________- in tiny sacs of lung tissue specialized for the movement of gases between air in blood lungs contain about 300 million of these which gives your lungs a huge surface for gas exchange

Answer 23

Alveoli

Question 24

Saclike organ that inhale and exhale air. The main organs of the Respiratory system

Answer 24

Lungs

Question 25

What is the diaphragm

Answer 25

I dome shaped muscle that plays an important role in breathing

Question 26

What is breathing

Answer 26

The movement of air into and out of the lungs

Question 27

Breaking down of food into small nutrient molecules I can use is called

Answer 27

Digestion