Body Systems and Homeostasis
Across
- 5. The body’s control system
- 11. Returns oxygen-poor blood back to the heart
- 13. ability to deal with the effects of a disruption
- 15. circulates blood throughout the entire body
- 16. The process in which food is digested and absorbed
- 19. Transfers blood from the tissue to or from the veins or arteries
- 20. The body’s support structure
Down
- 1. The tissues, glands, and organs involved in producing offspring
- 2. the result of a reaction is amplified to make it occur more quickly
- 3. response in which the effects of a reaction slow or stop that reaction
- 4. Makes up the glands that make hormones in the body
- 6. The systems that excrete wastes from the body
- 7. consist of a single muscle cell
- 8. Carries oxygen-rich blood to the cells
- 9. chemical substances that act like messenger molecules
- 10. the self regulation process to maintain stability
- 12. Intakes oxygen from the air and expels CO2
- 14. organ system consisting of skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscle
- 17. An organ that makes one or more substances
- 18. tissue containing cells that can contract to make movement