Chapter 5- Managing Materials in the Body

Which body system helps regulate body temperature and fight disease?

What is your third line of defense against pathogens?

What is your second line of defense against pathogens?

Blood type "AB" has no clumping proteins and is therefore considered a(n) ______________.

What system of the body includes the pancreas, liver, and small intestines?

Which part of the lung is responsible for gas exchange between air and blood?

These are waves of involuntary muscle contractions that push food through the digestive system.

Where in the circulatory system is there an exchange of materials between the blood and body?

Which organ is responsible for filtering wastes?

Which direction do arteries carry blood?

Which system collects the wastes that cells produce and removes them from the body?

Which is of the following is true about blood in the aorta?  The blood is _________.

Blood contains plasma, red and white blood cells, and __________.

The __________ system breaks down food, absorbs nutrients, and eliminates waste.

Clusters of air sacs in the lungs are ___________.

Urine leaves the body through the _____________.

The heart is made up of chambers call atriums and __________.

Proteins produced by B cells are called __________.

Which muscle works with your rib muscles to allow air to move in and out of your lungs?

Urine is stored in the ___________.

The _______ in your body carry blood back to your heart.

The following are considered _________: viruses, bacteria, protists, parasites, fungi.

__________ engulf pathogens and destroy them.

Which of the following is a protein that speeds up chemical reactions in the body?

Which below is a tiny filtering factory that removes wastes from blood and produces urine?

The organs of the excretory system help maintain homeostasis by _______________.

Mechanical digestion begins in the _______________.

What structure regulates the direction of blood flow through the heart?

What do villi in the small intestines assist the body with?

Which of the following organs functions as both the respiratory and excretory organ?