Across
- 2. make digestive juices and enzymes that help the body digest food and liquids
- 3. your body's command center.
- 4. a complex network of glands and organs
- 6. made up of blood vessels that carry blood away from and towards the heart
- 8. the system of an organism's body that performs the function of excretion, the bodily process of discharging wastes
- 10. involves physically breaking down food substances into smaller particles to more efficiently undergo chemical digestion
- 12. composed of specialized cells called muscle fibers
- 14. the bones that make up your body
- 16. an elastic blood vessel that transports blood from various regions of the body to the heart
- 17. move fresh air into your body while removing waste gases
- 18. an organ which produces and releases substances that perform a specific function in the body
- 19. the state of steady internal, physical, and chemical conditions maintained by living systems
Down
- 1. The tissues, glands, and organs involved in producing offspring
- 5. tiny blood vessels that transport blood, nutrients and oxygen to cells in your organs and body systems
- 6. involves the secretions of enzymes throughout your digestive tract
- 7. composed of cells that have the special ability to shorten or contract in order to produce movement of the body parts
- 9. your body's chemical messengers.
- 11. the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological processes
- 13. blood vessels that deliver oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the tissues of the body
- 15. fibers control the physical forces within the body