Body Systems and Homeostasis
Across
- 2. Flap of cartilage that covers the windpipe while swallowing.
- 5. Metabolic equilibrium maintained by biological mechanisms.
- 6. Blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body
- 10. Red protein in blood that transports oxygen
- 12. Small tubules that are the excretory units of the vertebrate kidney.
- 14. Solid component of mammalian urine.
- 15. Chamber connected to other chambers or passageways
- 16. Clear liquid secreted by glands in the mouth.
- 18. Elastic tissue, mostly converted to bone in adults.
- 20. A blood vessel that carries blood toward the heart.
Down
- 1. Digestive juice secreted by the liver
- 3. Passage between the pharynx and the stomach
- 4. Dense fibrous membrane
- 7. Chamber of the heart that receives blood from an atrium.
- 8. Muscle that contracts.
- 9. Muscular partition in the chest.
- 11. Structure containing the vocal cords
- 13. Watery fluid in which blood cells are suspended.
- 17. Band of fibrous tissue connecting bones.
- 19. Band of tissue connecting a muscle.