Digestive, Respiratory, and Circulatory Systems Review

A patient has a terrible case of the hiccups - their lungs keep pushing air out unexpectedly. What muscle is spasming?

• Their lungs

• Their alveoli

• Their diaphragm

• Their pharynx

What moves from the blood into the alveoli at the lungs?

• oxygen

• carbon dioxide

• water

• glucose

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-7

When mucus is coughed out of your alveoli, what order of structures does it go through to reach your mouth?

• alveoli > trachea > bronchi > bronchioles > mouth

• alveoli > mouth > bronchioles > bronchi > trachea

• alveoli > bronchioles > bronchi > trachea > mouth

• alveoli > bronchi > trachea > bronchioles > mouth

What would happen to someone who’s alveoli become damaged due to a respiratory infection?

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-7

NGSS.HS-LS2-3

Doctors take blood from the large blood vessels called _____ that are low in oxygen.

If you take a blood sample from the site of an injury on someone’s leg, what two components would you expect to find in higher proportions than usual? (select all that apply)

• Platelets

• Stomach enzymes

• Carbonic Acid

• White Blood Cells

Complete the pathway of movement of a glucose molecule, from the large starch molecule in pizza that it starts in to the body cell that it ends in. 

mouth > esophagus > stomach > small intestine > _________ > artery/vein > _________ > body cell

Trace the path of movement of an oxygen molecule, from the air around us to the muscle cell in your arm that needs it for cellular respiration! 

Nose → trachea → bronchi → bronchioles → _______ → capillary → artery → capillary → muscle cell

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-3

What would happen to someone who’s heart muscle was weakened by a Scarlet Fever infection they had when they were a kid?

What is the function (job) of the large intestine?

• To absorb water and minerals

• To store vitamins and fats

• To produce bile and acid

• To regulate the blood sugar and hormones