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Biologytestchap10
Biology notes for test chapter 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The disorder resulting from too little oxygen being transported to body cells is called? | Anemia |
| Where are blood cells produced? | Bone Marrow |
| The flap of cartilage in the throat that helps food travel to the stomach and not the lungs is called? | Epilglottis |
| Another name for the voice box is? | The Larynx |
| The irregular shaped pockets or air spaces in the nasal cavity that warm and moisten air are called? | Nasal Meatuses |
| What kind of circulation involves the kidneys? | Renal Circulation |
| The process in which air enters your body? | Inhalation |
| The part of the brain which controls involuntary muscle actions is called? | The Medulla Oblongata |
| A breathing disorder, when a person has trouble respirating properly is called? | Bronchial Asthma |
| The liquid part of blood is called? | Plasma |
| If a person loses too much blood or plasma, when the body's blood pressure falls to a critical low, this is called...? | Circulatory Shock |
| The tiny disk shaped cell fragments produced in the bone marrow that serve as roving patch kits are called? | Blood Platelets |
| A special iron containing blood protein which binds easily to oxygen and gives blood it's red color is what? | Hemoglobin |
| What is the universal donor and recipient blood type? | O |
| The tough white sac that encases the heart is called? | Pericardium |
| The 'wall' inside the heart that seperates the right and left sides is called what? | the Septum |
| The movable floor of the thoracic cavity, a thick sheet of muscle that seperates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity is called what? | The Diaphragm |
| The normal amount of air volume is called? | Tidal volume |
| Blood pressure is also called? | Hypertension |
| The muscles that are in between your ribs are called? | Inter costal muscles |
| What are the small passages between the bronchii and the lungs? | Bronchioles |