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System used for breathing.
What is the Respiratory system
Another name for windpipe
What is your Trachea
A warm, sticky substance in the Respiratory System
What is your Mucus
Tiny hairlike parts that line the trachea and bronchial tubes
What is Cilia
Sheet of muscle that helps you breathe
What is your Diaphragm
Liquid that moves nutrients, oxygen, and wastes inside your body
What is Blood
The tiniest parts of your blood are called this
What are platelets
Word used to describe blood thickening
What is to clot
Blood cells that carry oxygen from lungs to cells and carbon dioxide from cells to lungs
What are red blood cells
Large cells in your blood that help your body fight sickness.
What are white blood cells
The organ that pumps your blood
What is your Heart
Tubes that carry your blood
What are blood vessels
These carry blood away from the heart
What are Arteries
Carry blood back to your heart
What are Veins
Connect Arteries to Veins
What are Capilleries
Your heartbeat can also be called this
What is your Pulse
A measure of how hard blood must push to move through arteries.
What is blood pressure
This makes your heart beat faster and harder and is good for the heart
What is exercise
Two things that are bad for the heart
What are stress and smoking
High blood pressure is often caused by this building up in the arteries
What is Fatty Matter
Means: breathe in
What is inhale
Means: Breathe Out
What is exhale
The liquid part of blood is called this
What is Plasma
Day in February where you see a lot of hearts
What is Valentines Day
Tiny living creatures that can make you ill if they get inside your body
What are Micro- Organisms