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