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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| metabolism | The bidy's use of molecules for energy and griwth |
| Glucose | A molecule that organisms can use to release energy and that is made of carbon hydrogen and oxygen atoms |
| oxygen | A molecule that organisms geet from the air or water around them and use to release energy |
| Amino Acids | Molecules that are the building blocks of proteins |
| System | A set of in teracting parts forming a complex |
| Digestive system | The body system that takes in food and breaks it whole |
| Respiratory system | The body system that takes in oxygen and releases carbon dioxide |
| Circulatory system | The body system that transports molecules to and from all cells of the body |
| Energy | The ability to make thing move or change |
| Protein | A category of large molecules that perform important functions inside living things |
| Starch | A type of energy storage molecule made of many glucose molecules connected together |
| Tissue | A group of cells that work together to perform a specific job |
| Heart | Musculer organ that pumps blood that pumps blood throughout the body |
| Arteries | Blood vessels that carry oxygen rich blood from the heart to the the body |
| Veins | bloods vessels that return oxygen poor blood back to the heart |
| Capillaries | Tiny blood vessels where the exchange of oxygen cabon dioxide |
| Circulation | Movement of blood through the heart and blood bvessels delivering oxygen & nutrients to the body and removing waste products |
| lUngs | Main organ of the respiratory system where gas exchange occurs |
| Diaphragm | muscular structure that separates the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity and plays a key role in breathing |
| alveoli | Tiy air sacs in the lungs where the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide take place |
| ingestion | Process of taking food into the body |
| Digestion | Process of breaking food down into its smallest parts |
| Respiration | Process by which oxygen is taken in and carbon dioxide |
| Excretion | To remove waste |
| Homeoatasis | The body's ability to maintain a stable internal environment even when external conditions change |
| Voluntary | you need to decide on the action think it before it happens done by choice |
| involuntary | Happens without you thinking about doing it occurs automatically |
| Smooth Muscle | Type of muscle found in internal organs that operates involuntarily you don't have to think about it it just happens Example the muscle that makes up the esophaus |
| Cardiac Muscle | Type of muscle tissue that makes up the heart and operates involuntarily your don't have to think about it for it to happen |
| Cellular respiration | The chemical reaction between oxygen and glucose that releases energy into cells |
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