Across
- 6. Breathing in fresh air and expelling waste gases.
- 7. Made up of the brain and spinal cord.
- 10. Gives the necessary pull on the bones for bending, straightening, and supporting joints.
- 13. Divides food into nutrients like proteins, fats, and carbohydrates.
- 14. Helps the body's organs communicate with one another.
- 15. These hormones enable a woman to become pregnant and aid in the development of girls.
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- 1. Bones (the skeleton), muscles, cartilage, tendons, ligaments, joints, and other connective tissue
- 2. Provides protection for organs, makes blood cells, gives the body its shape, and stores minerals.
- 3. During puberty aids a boy's development into a sexually mature man.
- 4. To remove wastes from the body.
- 5. Delivers nutrients and oxygen to cells while removing waste.
- 8. By removing all fluids that leak from our blood vessels, maintains fluid levels in our body tissues.
- 9. Includes the adrenal, pineal, pituitary, pancreatic, ovarian, testicular, thyroid, parathyroid, and hypothalamic glands.
- 11. Includes the skin, thymus, bone marrow, lymph nodes, and blood vessels. It protects the body's own cells from infection.
- 12. Removes waste from your blood in the form of urine.