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Human Body
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| homeostasis | maintaining body temperature |
| joint | two bones come together |
| spongy bone | layer of bone tissue; looks like a sponge |
| compact bone | beneath the bone's membrane; hard/dense; not solid |
| cartilage | more flexible than bone; protects the ends of bone |
| ligament | strong connective tissue that holds bones together in movable joints |
| tendon | strong connective tissue that attaches muscle to bone |
| red marrow | produces most of the bodies blood cells |
| yellow marrow | stores fat; can serve as an energy reserve |
| skeletal muscle | attached to bones; provides force that moves your bones |
| striated muscle | a muscle that appears banded; also called skeletal muscle |
| smooth muscle | involuntary muscles that are found in many of the internal muscles of your body |
| cardiac muscle | muscle found only in the heart |
| integumentary system | skin |
| epidermis | outer layer of skin |
| dermis | inner layer of the skin |
| melanin | pigment that gives skin color |
| follicle | strands of hair in the dermis |
| mechanical digestion | chewing |
| chemical digestion | chemicals break food down into smaller pieces |
| Epiglottis | flap of tissue that seals off your windpipe |
| peristalsis | involuntary waves of muscle contraction |
| esophagus | muscular tube that connects the mouth to the stomach |
| absorption | nutrient molecules pass through the wall of the digestive system into your blood |
| villus | tiny finger-shaped structures that cover the small intestine |
| pacemaker | located in the right atrium of the heart; sends out signals that make the heart muscle contract |
| artery | blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart |
| capillary | narrow blood vessels |
| vein | blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart |
| plasma | liquid part of blood |
| red blood cell | blood cell that takes up oxygen in the lungs and delivers it to cells somewhere else in the body |
| hemoglobin | an iron, containing protein that binds chemically to oxygen molecules |
| white blood cell | fights body's diseases |
| Platelet | play an important part in forming blood clots |
| lymph | fluid the lymphatic system collects and and returns to the bloodstream |
| lymph node | small knob of tissue in the lymphatic system that filters lymph |
| cillia | hairlike things that are on the outside of cells |
| pharynx | throat |
| trachea | windpipe |
| alveoli | tiny sacs of lung tissue specialized for the movement of gases between blood and air |
| diaphragm | large muscle located at the bottom of a mammal's rib cage: functions in breathing |
| larynx | voice box |
| excretion | process where waste is removed from the body |
| urea | chemical that comes from the breakdown of proteins |
| kidney | major organ of excretory system; removes urea and other wastes from the blood |
| ureter | narrow tube that carries urine from one of the kidneys to the urinary bladder |
| urinary bladder | sack-like muscular organ that stores urine until its removed from the body |
| urethra | small tube where urine flows from the body |
| nephron | small filtering structure found in kidneys that removes waste from the blood and produces urine |
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