Body Systems---Ethan Reiss
Across
- 4. Vessel that brings deoxygenated blood back to the heart
- 6. Heart chamber that pumps blood
- 9. Air sacs inside lungs
- 11. Circuit that carries blood between heart and lungs
- 14. Getting rid of so much CO2 from the body that the brain stops sending messages to the diaphragm
- 15. Heart chamber that receives blood
- 17. Leads to each lung
- 18. Side of the heart that receives oxygenated blood from the lungs
- 19. Lobe of the cerebral cortex that controls sight
- 21. Side of the heart that receives deoxygenated blood from the body
- 22. Sheet of muscle that contracts to "pull" air into lungs
- 23. Iron deficiency
- 25. Vessel that pumps oxygenated blood to the body
Down
- 1. Where the digestive and respiratory systems meet
- 2. Vessel that brings blood to the heart
- 3. Lobe of the cerebral cortex that controls taste and speech
- 5. Coordination of movement and balance
- 7. Part of spinal chord that mostly contains nerve cell bodies and dendrites
- 8. Circuit that carries blood between the heart and the rest of the body
- 10. Voice box
- 12. Part of spinal chord that contains mostly axons
- 13. Bad habit that causes lung cancer
- 14. In red blood cells and carries O2
- 16. Anything that causes a nerve signal to start
- 20. Windpipe
- 24. Vessel that brings blood away from the heart