Body Systems

Question 1

How do we get nutrients into blood?

Answer 1

through veins of small intestine

Question 2

Where does blood from small intestine drain to first?

Answer 2

liver

Question 3

What type of blood and to where does the right side of the heart pump?

Answer 3

deoxygenated to lungs

Question 4

What type of blood and to where does the left side of the heart pump?

Answer 4

oxygenated to all other tissues and organs

Question 5

From the heart in terms of arteries, capillaries and veins what is the direction of flow?

Answer 5

from arteries to arterioles to capillaries to venues to veins

Question 6

How does oxygen get into blood?

Answer 6

diffused through thin walled capillaries in alveoli

Question 7

once excess tissue fluid is taken up by lymphatic system what is it called?

Answer 7

lymph

Question 8

How is cellular debris excreted?

Answer 8

faeces

Question 9

What happens to ingested drugs metabolically?

Answer 9

deactivated by metabolism in liver

Question 10

How are foreign bodies excreted?

Answer 10

through lymphatics to lymph nodes

Question 11

What is the 2 functions of nervous system?

Answer 11

sense our environment and produce appropriate response

Question 12

What are the 3 parts of nervous system?

Answer 12

sensory, responsive, central connections

Question 13

3 things musculoskeletal system is important for?

Answer 13

breathing, locomotion, ingestion of food and water