Chapter 3 - Human Body Systems

There are three types of blood cells, red, white and blue blood cells.

What are the pair of organs that remove waste from the blood?

Your diaphragm contracts and moves down when you?

What are the tiny finger-shaped structures that help the small intestine absorb food?

What are the tiny hairlike structures that line many parts of the respiratory system?

What are the tiny thin-walled pouches in the lungs?

What is the sticky, thick fluid that traps dust, germs, and other things that are in the air?

What are the kidneys?

Water and salts are taken from wastes in the stomach.

Which organs make digestive fluids?

What do we call the tube that carries food to the stomach?

What are the blood vessels that carry blood away from your heart to other parts of the body?

What is the liquid in the mouth that has chemicals that helps digest food?

The plasma carries food from the digestive system to your body cells.

What do all multi-cellular organisms need for their cells to get or produce energy?

Which system does not carry waste out of the body?

Chewing is the second step of digestion.

What are the tiny buds that sense what we are eating on our tongues called?

What are the flaps that act like doors to keep blood flowing in one direction?

The red blood cells carry oxygen to the rest of the body.

Platelets form a sticky clot when a blood vessel is cut.

What do we call breathing out?

When digestion is finished, the particles move into the blood vessels in the small intestine.

What helps to prevent food from going down the wrong pipe?

What is the smallest kind of blood vessel?

What are the small tubes in the lungs?

What do we call breathing in?

What is the tube that carries air from the larynx to the lungs?

What are the blood vessels that take blood from cells back to the heart?

What structures connect the smallest arteries with the smallest veins?

Helpful bacteria live in the small intestine.