Across
- 1. Make up 206 as an adult
- 5. The body's control center, receiving and sending signals to other organs through the nervous system and through secreted hormones; responsible for our thoughts, feelings, memory storage and general perception of the world
- 6. Responsible for the elimination of wastes produced by homeostasis
- 8. Allows us to take in vital oxygen and expel carbon dioxide in a process we call breathing
- 11. Helps us move, involved in the production of blood cells, and stores calcium
- 12. Controls both voluntary action (like conscious movement) and involuntary actions (like breathing), and sends signals to different parts of the body
- 14. Make up 206 as an adult
- 15. About 650 muscles that aid in movement, blood flow, and the maintenance of posture and body position
Down
- 2. Remove waste and extra fluid from the blood; makes urine
- 3. A series of connected organs that together, allow the body to break down and absorb food, and remove waste
- 4. Protects us, is our first defense against bacteria, viruses and other pathogens, helps regulate body temperature, and eliminates waste through sweating
- 7. Move blood, nutrients, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and hormones, around the body; consists of the heart, blood, blood vessels,arteries and veins
- 9. Responsible for pumping blood throughout our body
- 10. Type of elastic tissue; three different types of _____
- 13. Carries out the physical and chemical digestion of food by using muscles and aiding enzymes
- 16. Responsible for removing oxygen from the air we breathe and transferring it to our blood where it can be sent to our cells; also remove carbon dioxide, which we exhale