Across
- 2. Part of the neuron that conducts nerve impulses.
- 3. The largest, longest, and strongest bone in your body that runs from your hip to your knee.
- 6. Organ that pumps blood throughout the body.
- 7. Any change or signal in the environment that can make an organism react in some way.
- 9. cords made of tough tissue that connect bone and muscle.
- 11. Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
- 13. Long tube where both food and air pass through.
- 15. The large air passages that lead from the trachea to the lungs.
- 17. Found where the pharynx splits into the trachea; the voice comes from here.
- 19. Works as a support structure for your body and gives it its shape, allows movement, makes blood cells, provides protection for organs, and stores minerals.
- 20. Part of the brain that controls the skeletal muscles to produce smooth, graceful movements.
Down
- 1. A bone in your inner ear that is the smallest of all bones.
- 4. Getting oxygen into the body and carbon dioxide out.
- 5. Make up about 40% of your total body weight.
- 8. The strongest muscle in your body based on weight.
- 10. A disease caused by the inflammation of the lining of bronchial tubes due to a viral respiratory infection.
- 12. Bundle of axons or nerve cell fibers
- 13. Muscles found on each side of your upper chest.
- 14. The connective tissue that connects bones to other bones.
- 16. A part of the blood that helps to form clots and prevent you from bleeding out.
- 18. Carries blood with no oxygen from the body to the heart.