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37 Cards in this Set
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Digestion begins as you ________ your food.
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chew
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Chewing breaks food into _______ pieces.
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smaller
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_______ moisten food and starts to break starchy foods into _______.
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Saliva, sugar
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When you ________, food travels down the ________ to the stomach.
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swallow, esophagus
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The stomach contains ______ juice that contains ______ and chemicals to break down proteins.
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Gastric, acid
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After several hours in the _______, partially digested food moves onto _______.
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stomach, nutrients
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______: projections sticking out of walls in the small intestine.
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Villi
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Nutrients ______ through the villi into the blood.
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diffuse
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_______ food passes from the small intestine to the ___________.
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Undigested, large intestine
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Water and ________ diffuse through the blood , and _____ are removed from the body.
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minerals, wastes
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The liver produces a ______, which is stored in the ________.
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bile, gallbladder
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Bile breaks ____ down into smaller pieces that can be more easily digested.
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fat
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The ________ produces a fluid that neutralizes stomach _____ and chemicals that help finish the ________>
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Pancreas, acid, digestion
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Liquid blood is called ____.
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plasma
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Solid bloood contains ___ and ____ blood cells.
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Red and White.
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Red blood cells absorb _____ from air in the _____ and transports it to every cell in the body.
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oxeegyn, lungs
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white blood cells fight _________ by destroying virsues and ______.
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infection, bacteria
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Platlets cause blood to _____ and repair blood vessels.
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clot
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The heart is made up of _______ tissue,which pumps the ____ through blood vessels.
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muscle, blood
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The hear has _______ chambers.
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four
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Oxegyn-rich blood is pumped from the ______ through two of the hearts chamber and into the ______.
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lungs, body
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Oxegy-poor blood is punped from the _____ through two of the hearts chambers and into the _____.
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body, lungs
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Blood travels through blood _______.
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vessels.
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blood leaves the heart through ________ which leadd to capillaries.
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arteries.
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blood returns to the heart through ______.
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Veins
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ammonia is carried by the blood to the _______, where it is changed to ____.
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liver, urea
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Urea is carried by blood to the _______.
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kidneys.
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Kidneys are located behind the ______ and the ______.
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liver, stomach
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In the kidneys, urea and water are ________ into tubes called ________.
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diffused, nephrons
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Urine flows from the kidneys into tubes ________.
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ureters.
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Urine is made of _____ and _____.
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urea, water.
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Ureters empty into the ______.
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bladder
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Urine leaves the body through a channel called the _______.
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urethra.
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heat is a type of ____ thast needs to leave the body.
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waste
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Evaporation pulls _____ from the ________ just below the skin.
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heat, capillaries
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The _______ and entire body is cooled
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blood
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Plasma contains dissolved _______ and ______ products(carbon dioxide)
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nutrients, waste
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