Respiratory System
This organ transports air from the mouth or nose to the lungs.
What is the trachea?
Muscular organ that pumps blood to all parts of the body.
What is the heart?
Although food doesn't go through this organ, it produces bile to help digest food. The bile is stored in the gall bladder.
What is the liver?
This muscular organ squeezes to transport food from the mouth to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
The control center for the body. Sends and receives signals
What is the brain?
These tiny air sacs in the lungs are where the gas exchange occurs
What are alveoli?
What are arteries?
This is where digestion begins in the human body. Food is broken down physically with the teeth and chemically by saliva.
What is the mouth?
This enzyme is produced in the mouth and begins to chemically digest food while chewing.
What is saliva?
The largest organ of the human body. It protects against infection, regulates body temperature, and has many nerve endings to provide a sense of touch.
What is the skin?
The waste gas produced by your body's functions.
What is carbon dioxide?
Blood vessels that return blood to the heart.
What are veins?
Food does not go through this organ, but it produces enzymes to aid in digestion, especially insulin that helps to break down sugar.
What is the pancreas?
This enzyme is produced in the liver and is stored in the gall bladder.
What is bile?
This part of the eye automatically opens and closes in response to changing light conditions.
What is the pupil?
The process of breathing in.
What is to inhale?
These blood cells help prevent against infection.
What are white blood cells?
This organ breaks down food physically by churning/muscular action and chemically through acids, digestive juices and enzymes.
What is the stomach?
This organ is where the nutrients in the food are absorbed into the blood stream.
What is the small intestine?
This organ helps provide a sense of hearing and helps humans maintain balance.
What is the ear?
This one is smaller than the other to make room for the heart.
What is the left lung?
This liquid carries oxygen and nutrients to all body systems and cells.
What is the blood?
This organ is where the water and salts are removed and sent back the body and where solid waste is excreted from the body.
What is the large intestine?
These tiny finger-like projections line the small intestine and absorb nutrients into the blood stream.
What are villi?
What is the spinal cord?