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Respiration 701
Respiration Vocabulary (gas exchage and transport)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Respiration | The process in the lungs of exchanging gases |
| Diaphragm | A large flat muscle that lies across the bottom of the chest cavity it contracts and moves down |
| Cellular Respiration | The process in cells that releases the chemical enery stored in food. |
| Pharnyx | It serves as a passage way for both air and food |
| Capillaries | Capillaries are the smallest blood vessels where the exchange of nutrients and gases between the blood and the cells take place |
| Circulation | The movement of blood throughout the body of an animal |
| Arteries | Arteries are vessles that have thick muscular walls. (They are very elastic and expandable) |
| Platelets | Fragment of cells in blood that plug leaks when an injury occurs |
| Alveoli | Millions of tiny air sacs |
| Cillia | Helps clean the delicate tissues that line the lungs clean |
| Plasma | Its a yellow colored liquid that blood is made up off |
| Veins | Thin walled blood vessels that get larger as they get closer to the heart,and which carry the oxygen-deeted blood. |