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A network of roads carries people and good throughout a city. Similarly, a network of blood vessels the driving force is your heart.Why does your body need this system? Why us blood called a living thing?

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Because the heart is the engine of the body and blood is full of cells.

2
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Where does your heart get fuel from?

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From the food that the humans eat it turns into energy.

3
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Oxygen enters a unicellular animal what is the animal doing with the air.

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The cells are using oxygen and are producing carbon dioxide.

4
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What is a diaphragm?

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It is a sheet of muscle across the bottom of the chest cavity that causes us to inhale and exhale.

5
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What does Breathing mean?

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The regular movement of air into and out of the lungs.

6
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What is the Trachea?

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A rigid tube that provides passage of air from the mouth and nose to the lungs.

7
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What does Epiglottis mean?

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A flap of tissue that closes over the opening of the trachea during swallowing.

8
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What type of function is breathing?

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It is an automatic body function because you don’t have to think about breathing and you already are breathing.

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What does Respiration mean?

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The process by which animals take in oxygen and release carbon dioxide.

10
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The lungs have tiny hairs what are the hairs jobs?

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It exchanges the air and blood.