Body Systems

Edit Answers
123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233
Across
  1. 2. The ability to detect sound waves with your ears.
  2. 4. Changes in an organism’s environment that causes a reaction.
  3. 8. Soft tissue that can contract and relax and allows you to move.
  4. 11. Place that receives air, food and liquids from the mouth & nose.
  5. 12. Chamber that pumps blood out of the heart.
  6. 13. Vessel that usually carries high-oxygen blood away from the heart.
  7. 14. Intestine Long tube connected to the stomach where nutrient absorption occurs,
  8. 15. Organ where food is broken down into small molecules.
  9. 17. Vessel that usually carries low-oxygen blood toward the heart.
  10. 18. Organ that filters waste from the blood.
  11. 19. Tube that carries urine out of the body.
  12. 20. Long tube that air travels down after being inhaled.
  13. 24. Tissue that connects bone to muscle.
  14. 25. Main organs of the respiratory system that inhale and exhale air.
  15. 27. Muscular tube that connects the mouth to the stomach.
  16. 28. Tube that connects the kidneys to the bladder.
  17. 30. Tissue that connects bone to bone.
  18. 31. The ability of the eyes to detect and receive light waves so the brain can form it into images.
  19. 33. The ability to detect different odors with your nose.
Down
  1. 1. Where two or more bones meet
  2. 3. Large muscle below the lungs that contracts/relaxes as you breathe.
  3. 5. Intestine Long tube connected to the small intestine where water is absorbed from food waste.
  4. 6. Special molecules that detect and receive stimuli.
  5. 7. An action that cannot be controlled by thinking about it.
  6. 9. Long structure of neurons that sends signals throughout the entire body.
  7. 10. Strong, flexible tissue that protects bones & joints
  8. 16. Chamber where blood enters the heart.
  9. 17. An action that can be controlled by thinking about it.
  10. 20. The ability to tell the difference between flavors in your mouth.
  11. 21. Microscopic sacs where gas exchange occurs.
  12. 22. Organ that stores urine.
  13. 23. Pair of tubes connecting the trachea to the lungs.
  14. 24. The ability to receive information about the outside environment through physical contact with the skin.
  15. 26. Organ that receives, processes, responds to, and stores information.
  16. 29. Tiny vessels that allow important materials to enter your body’s cells.
  17. 31. The different ways our body detects and reacts to stimuli.
  18. 32. Cells in the nervous system that transmit signals to one another.