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33 Cards in this Set
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How do we breath? |
When you breath in, the diaphragm gets smaller and drops down. The ribs expand outward. Air rushes in to fill in to the space |
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What's the main function to the respiratory system |
The respiratory system brings oxygen into the body and removes carbon dioxide and other gases. |
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The proses of changing food to substance the body can use is __________? |
Digestion |
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Digestion begins in the _______. The moment the food enters the _______, the ________ _____ sends secretions in to begin changing starches into sugar. |
Mouth, mouth, salivary glans |
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The _________ moves food around. Teeth further break up food into small pieces and reduce it to a small, soft ball ready to swallow |
Esophagus |
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Food moves down the ______ towards the _______ by Muscles. |
Esophagus, stomach |
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What does the stomach do? |
It breaks down food |
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After the food goes into the stomach its absorbed into the __________ __________? |
Small intestine |
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After it moves through the small intestine it moves into the ___________ __________? |
Large intestine |
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When its finally ready to be released from the body it goes to thre ______ and expelled out an opening in the skin called the _____? |
Rectum, anus |
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The ribs protect your _______ and fat. |
Kidneys |
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A muscular bag that stores urine before it is eliminated from the body is the ______? |
Bladder |
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The ________ are tubes leading from your kidneys to your bladder |
Urethral |
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Urine exits the body through the ________ ?
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Ureters |
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Blood enters the excretory system through a _______? |
Vein |
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What is the function of the circulartory system? |
The circulatory system is a group of organs witch carry food and oxygen to and remove wast from every cell in the body. |
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There are about __________ red blood cells per cubic mm |
5,000,000 |
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What do read blood cells produce |
In the Bone marrow |
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There are about ________ white blood cells per cubic mm |
6,000 |
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What do the white blood cells do? |
Destroys bacteria whatcha invade the body |
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What are the 3 main parts of the nervous system |
The spinal cord, the brain, and the nerves |
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Your collar bone is called the _______? |
Mandible |
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The breastbone is also called the ________? |
Sternum |
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Th thigh bone is called the _____? |
Femur |
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What is the main function of the skeletal system? |
Supports the structure of the body and gives it shape and gives protection to the vital organs, is an attachment to the muscles |
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Name the 3 kinds of muscles |
Skeletal, smooth, cardiac |
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Example of skeletal |
Tongue |
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Example of smooth |
Stomach |
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Example of cardiac |
Heart |
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Why do you shiver when your cold |
The brain is telling your nerve to tighten and loosen |
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Why do you hiccup? |
Irataions of the nerves that extend from the neck to the chest cause them |
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Why do you yawn |
lack of oxygen |
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Why do you cough |
The most com mon cause of a cough is a respiratory track infection (cold, flu) |
