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