Body Parts #1
This organ pumps blood throughout the body
What is the heart?
These organs are involved in breathing and gas exchange of CO2 and O2
What are the lungs?
This system has central and peripheral systems and involves the brain and spinal cord
What is the Nervous System?
This fluid transports oxygen and nutrients throughout the body, acts as fluid connective tissue, regulates body temperature, and more!
What is blood?
This organ helps break down and store carbs, fats, and proteins and secretes bile
What is the Liver?
This body system involves the mouth and stomach
What is the digestive system
This organ has lots of lobes and cortexes and is connected in the center by a corpus callosum (hint: you know this organ, just think about it!)
What is the brain?
These organs filter the waste product out of your blood
What are the Kidneys?
This system is a long-distance messaging system involving specific molecules entering the circulatory system and traveling to organs.
What is the endocrine system?
This organ releases enzymes which break down sugars, fats, and carbohydrates and also releases the hormone insulin.
What is the Pancreas?
What is the skin?
This system involved the Kidney and Bladder
What is the Urinary system?
This substance creates blood cells and fat, depending on the type
What is bone marrow?
This pouch projects from the colon and now has no purpose in the human body as it was used to digest cellulose
What is the appendix?
This system involved B cells and T cells and is used to fight infections (not the immune system)
What is the lymphatic systen?