Across
- 2. Organ that pumps blood through the body
- 3. Large, flat muscle at the bottom of the chest cavity that helps with breathing
- 4. intestine Absorbs water, salts, and vitamins, 6-8 feet long, also called "colon"
- 8. Food enters the body here-teeth, tongue, and salivary glands
- 11. intestine Absorption of nutrients takes place here, divided into 3 parts, produces enzymes, 19 ft long
- 13. Protein that carries oxygen in red blood cells
- 16. Muscle contractions of the esophagus that push the food down into the stomach
- 19. smallest branches of the bronchi
- 22. disease where the alveoli fill with fluid
- 23. Air moves through here into the larynx
- 25. blood part that stops bleeding
- 26. windpipe; tube through which air moves into the lungs
Down
- 1. System also known as the Circulatory System which transports blood
- 5. Tube connecting the mouth to the stomach
- 6. Dioxide (CO2) gas produced by body cells as waste; exhaled out of the body through the lungs
- 7. Hollow sac, contains digestive juices and makes acids to break down food
- 9. (O2) Gas that travels from the lungs to the blood and the rest of the body
- 10. produces bile and detoxifies blood, food does not go through here
- 12. Main organs of the respiratory system
- 14. function of the respiratory system
- 15. liquid part of the blood
- 17. glands Produces saliva, contains amylase
- 18. Tube that carries blood with oxygen AWAY from the heart
- 20. two short branches located at the lower end of the trachea that carry air into the lungs.
- 21. color of the blood
- 24. tiny air sacs in the lungs that allow gas exchange