Review for Digestion, Excretory, Circulatory, and Respiratory System Test
Know the flow of food from the start of the digestive system to the end of the digestive system.
What type of food does saliva help break down?
What kind of digestion is chewing?
What is peristalsis?
Where is the cardiac sphincter, the pyloric sphincter, and the anal sphincter. What is there purpose?
What does the stomach do for digestion?
What does the small intestine do for digestion? What are villi important for?
What does the large intestine do?
What does the liver do for digestion? What are some of the other functions of the liver?
What does the gall bladder do?
What does the pancreas do for digestion? What are some of the other functions of the pancreas?
What is cirrhosis?
What is diarrhea?
What is constipation?
What is diabetes?
What is the main purpose of the excretory system?
What do kidneys do?
What are nephrons?
What is dialysis?
Be able to label pictures of the digestive system and the excretory system.
What do arteries do?
What do veins do?
What do capillaries do?
What are some of the functions of the circulatory system?
What is another name for red blood cells?
What does hemoglobin do for red blood cells? Why is hemoglobin so important for the human body?
How does your body know when to breath?
What do white blood cells do?
What do platelets do?
Know the 4 chambers of the heart. You also need to know how the blood flows through the heart and
the major arteries and veins that are part of this system.
Know when blood is oxygenated during is journey through the heart and know when it is deoxygenated.
What is the pacemaker?
What is cardiovascular disease and what can cause it?
What can cardiovascular disease lead to?
What is bypass surgery and how does it work? (what do they do)
What is an angioplasty?
What is the main function of the respiratory system?
Know the flow of air in the respiratory system staring with the nose or mouth.
What are alveoli?
Where do the respiratory system and circulatory system interact?
Know when muscle contract or relax when you are breathing.
What is asthma?
What is bronchitis?
What is Pneumonia?
What is emphysema?
Be able to label a picture of the respiratory system or the heart for the circulatory system.