Body Systems Crossword Puzzle

2. Part of the neuron that conducts nerve impulses.
3. The largest, longest, and strongest bone in your body that runs from your hip to your knee.
6. Organ that pumps blood throughout the body.
7. Any change or signal in the environment that can make an organism react in some way.
9. cords made of tough tissue that connect bone and muscle.
11. Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
13. Long tube where both food and air pass through.
15. The large air passages that lead from the trachea to the lungs.
17. Found where the pharynx splits into the trachea; the voice comes from here.
19. Works as a support structure for your body and gives it its shape, allows movement, makes blood cells, provides protection for organs, and stores minerals.
20. Part of the brain that controls the skeletal muscles to produce smooth, graceful movements.

1. A bone in your inner ear that is the smallest of all bones.
4. Getting oxygen into the body and carbon dioxide out.
5. Make up about 40% of your total body weight.
8. The strongest muscle in your body based on weight.
10. A disease caused by the inflammation of the lining of bronchial tubes due to a viral respiratory infection.
12. Bundle of axons or nerve cell fibers
13. Muscles found on each side of your upper chest.
14. The connective tissue that connects bones to other bones.
16. A part of the blood that helps to form clots and prevent you from bleeding out.
18. Carries blood with no oxygen from the body to the heart.