Body Systems Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. Carry oxygen throughout the body and remove carbon dioxide
  2. 8. Absorbs the nutrients from your food
  3. 10. Dries out the waste and turns into a solid
  4. 11. Blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart
  5. 13. Brings food to the stomach
  6. 14. Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart to organs and tissues
  7. 15. breaking down food with enzymes
  8. 16. Physical breakdown of large pieces of food into smaller pieces using your teeth.
Down
  1. 1. Responsible for the elimination of waste
  2. 3. a gas we take in when we inhale
  3. 4. tiny, thin-walled vessels which form a network to take blood through the organs and tissues
  4. 5. Main organs of the respiratory system, where gas exchange takes place
  5. 6. Helps to stop bleeding by clumping and clotting
  6. 7. Help to fight infection
  7. 9. Stores food and contains an acid that breaks it down
  8. 12. a waste gas that is toxic to our bodies if we don't get rid of it by exhaling