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Science Jeopardy
Body
Systems II
Today’s Categories
•Circulation
•Respiration
•Nervous System
•Grab Bag
Jeopardy
Body Systems II
Circulation Respiration
Nervous
System
Grab
Bag
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Circulation for 100
The organ responsible for
pumping blood through the
body.
What is the heart?
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Circulation for 200
The chamber of the heart that
receives oxygen poor blood
from the body.
What is the right atrium?
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Circulation for 300
The artery through which
oxygen poor blood travels from
the left ventricle to the lungs
What is the pulmonary artery?
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Circulation for 400
The “wall” that separates the
left chambers of the heart from
the right chambers.
What is the septum?
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Circulation for 500
Oxygen rich blood leaves the
left ventricle through this
vessel.
What is the aorta?
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Respiration for 100
This large dome shaped muscle
attached to the lower ribs causes
your chest to expand during
breathing.
What is the diaphragm?
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Respiration for 200
These passages direct air from
the trachea into the lungs.
What are bronchi?
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Respiration for 300
The process in which oxygen
and glucose undergo a series of
complex reactions inside cells to
release energy.
What is respiration?
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Respiration for 400
There are approximately 300,000,000
of these tissues in your lungs that have
a combined surface area of about 70
square meters. This tissue is
responsible for the gas exchange .
What are alveoli?
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Respiration for 500
These waste products
are eliminated through
your lungs.
What are carbon dioxide
and water?
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Nervous System for 100
The thick column of nerve tissue that is
enclosed and protected by the vertebrae
and links the brain to most of the nerves
in the peripheral nervous system.
What is the spinal cord?
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Nervous System for 200
The cells that carry messages
through the nervous system.
What are neurons?
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Nervous System for 300
This part of the brain that is
responsible for solving complex mental
processes such as learning,
remembering and making judgments.
What is the cerebrum?
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Nervous System for 400
The tiny space between an axon
and the next structure.
What is a synapse?
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Nervous System for 500
These threadlike extensions of
neurons carry nerve impulses
toward the cell body.
What are dendrites?
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Grab Bag for 100
These are substances found in
our environment and known to
cause cancer.
What are carcinogens?
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Grab Bag for 200
This part of the brain coordinates
the actions of your muscles and
helps you keep your balance.
What is cerebellum?
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Grab Bag for 300
The part of the central nervous
system that controls the body’s
involuntary actions.
What is the brainstem?
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Grab Bag for 400
The tiny part of the brain that
links the nervous system and
the endocrine system.
What is the hypothalamus?
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Grab Bag for 500
In the 1860’s, this French scientist
created a heating process to kill
microorganisms in food. This
process is still used today.
Who was Louis Pasteur?
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