Human Body Systems
Across
- 1. the process by which your body breaks down food into small nutrient molecules
- 7. tiny vessel where substances are exchanged between the blood and body cells
- 9. substances in food that provide the raw materials the body's cells need to carry out all their essential processes
- 10. the reaction of a person's body by potentially threatening, challenging, or disturbing events
- 12. tiny thin walled sacs of lung tissue where gases can move between air and blood
- 14. protein that speed up chemical reactions in the body
Down
- 2. any change or signal in the environment that can make an organism react in soom way
- 3. waves of smooth muscle contractions that move food through the esophagus toward the stomach
- 4. chemical produced by an endocrine gland
- 5. a cell that carries information through the nervous system
- 6. the junction where one neuron can transfer an impulse to another neuron
- 8. two passages that direct air into the lungs
- 11. an action or change in behavior that occurs as a result of a stimulus
- 13. fluid inside the lymphatic system