biology body systems

Question 0

What is the difference between breathing and respiration?

Answer 0

Breathing is the process of inhaling and exhaling, getting air into and out of the lungs. Respiration occurs at a cellular level.

Question 1

What are 3 functions of the respiratory system?

Answer 1

Allows o2 and co2 out of our body
Allows o2 into our blood
Allows co2 out of our blood
Allows for cellular respiration to occur

Question 2

What is the respiratory surface?

Answer 2

The surface where gas exchange takes place

Question 3

What is the diaphragm?

Answer 3

A mussel that forms the chest cavity, separates the lungs

Question 4

What is the respiratory surface in humans what makes it up?

Answer 4

The walls of the alveoli which are one cell thick

Question 5

What are the 4 phases of respiration?

Answer 5

Breathing external respiration circulation internal respiration

Question 6

What is breathing controlled by?

Answer 6

The respiratory centre

Question 7

Name 3 respiratory diseases?

Answer 7

Asthma, bronchitis, lung cancer, emphysema,pneumonia

Question 8

What is the mucous membrane?

Answer 8

Made up of ciliates epithelial cells, traps bacteria, dust, and other particles in the air.

Question 9

What is digestion?

Answer 9

The process where food molecules are broken don

Question 10

What I extra cellular digestion?

Answer 10

The process that causes food to move through the digestive tube

Question 11

What are the 3 fluids in the small intestine?

Answer 11

Bile, pancreatic juice, and intestinal juices

Question 12

What is the end product of digestion?

Answer 12

Feces

Question 13

Why does food have to be digested?

Answer 13

The nutrient molecules in food are to large to pass through the cell membrane

Question 14

What are 3 mechanisms that stimulate the flow of gastric juice?

Answer 14

The thought sight smell or taste, food touching the lining, and when’s food mass enters the stomach

Question 15

What happens during absorbrion?

Answer 15

Digested nutrients pass through the epithelial cells and enter either the capillaries or the lacteal. Absorbtion involves both diffusion and active transport.

Question 16

What are the 3 main functions of the large intestine?

Answer 16

The re absorbtion of water, the absorbtion of vitamins produced by bacteria, and the elimination of undigested and Indigested material

Question 17

What is a villus?

Answer 17

Within each villus is a network of blood capillaries and in the centre is the lacteal.

Question 18

What are the 3 functions of the digestive system?

Answer 18

Energy, growth and repair

Question 19

What is the main function of the digestive system?

Answer 19

Get food into our bodies wand transport it by mechanical and chemical process so it can be used in our bodies

Question 20

What are the organs part of chemical digestion?

Answer 20

Pancreas and salivary glands

Question 21

What are the organs part of mechanical digestion?

Answer 21

Teeth, tongue, mouth, liver, esophagus

Question 22

What organs are part of absorbtion?

Answer 22

Large and small intestine

Question 23

What is different about the left and right lungs?

Answer 23

They have two lobs on the left and 3 on the right

Question 24

What a alveoli?

Answer 24

Air sacs where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged

Question 25

How many bones are there in the body?

Answer 25

206

Question 26

What are the 5 purposes of the skeletal system?

Answer 26

Shape and support, movement, protect major organs, makes red blood cells, stores phosphorus and calcium to make strong bones

Question 27

What are the two types of joints?

Answer 27

Ball and socket, shoulder and hip | Hinge , everything else

Question 28

What is the strongest bone in the body?

Answer 28

Femur

Question 29

What are the elements of blood?

Answer 29

Red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets

Question 30

What is the blood cell that is the most abundant?

Answer 30

The red blood cell with over 5 million per cube millimetre

Question 31

What do platelets do?

Answer 31

Trigger blood clotting

Question 32

What is the insoluble protein that traps cells to form a clot?

Answer 32

Fibrin

Question 33

What are 3 conditions that cause blood not to clot normally?

Answer 33

Deficiency in platelets, vitamin k deficiency, hereditary disease called hemophilia

Question 34

What are the parts of the circulatory system?

Answer 34

The heat, blood vessels, arteries, veins and capillaries

Question 35

What are the three kinds of blood vessels?

Answer 35

Arteries, veins and capillaries

Question 36

What is the function of the valves in the circulatory system?

Answer 36

To prevent blood flow in the opposite direction in veins.

Question 37

What are the 4 functions of the circulatory system?

Answer 37

Carries oxygen and carbon dioxide to and from our lungs and body Fights illness Transports nutrients Maintains temperature

Question 38

What is the inner part of the bone called?

Answer 38

Spongy bone tissue

Question 39

What do red blood cells do?

Answer 39

Transport oxygen and carbon dioxide

Question 40

What do white blood cells do?

Answer 40

Fight disease

Question 41

Where do arteries and veins carry the blood?

Answer 41

Arteries carry blood away from the heart and veins carry it to the heart

Question 42

What is the transport medium for red blood cells white blood cells and platelets?

Answer 42

Plasma

Question 43

What is respiration?

Answer 43

Moves oxygen into the body and gives up carbon dioxide to the environment

Question 44

What is air a mixture of?

Answer 44

Nitrogen, oxygen , carbon dioxide