Circulatory
System
System
The general name for the tubes that carry blood in your body?
What are blood vessels?
We need this gas to survive for more than a few minutes.
What is oxygen?
Your body's "computer".
What is the brain?
This body part takes in food and helps you breathe in and out.
What is the mouth?
These things protect your body and give it shape.
What are bones?
A pump in your chest that continuously sends blood throughout your body.
What is the heart?
Used oxygen turns into a gas that our bodies need to get rid of quickly.
What is carbon dioxide?
This sensory organ takes in smells.
What is the nose?
This body part helps push food from your throat to your stomach.
What is the esophagus?
What is the rib cage?
Organs in your lower back that filter/clean your blood?
What are kidneys?
These spongy tissues help us process oxygen and used blood.
What are lungs?
These cell bundles send and receive messages between your body and brain.
What are nerves?
This is a short, large-diameter tube that breaks down what's left of any solid food waste in your body.
What is the large intestine?
This long set of bones protects your spinal cord and run from the base of your skull to your tailbone.
What is the spinal column?
Blood vessels that carry used blood back to your heart to be re-oxygenated.
What are veins?
Another name for the "windpipe"...
What is the trachea?
These nerves are responsible for the signals that move your muscles.
What are motor nerves?
This part of the digestive system helps break down fats in your food and drink.
What is the liver?
These strong, "elastic" cells keep the bones of your joints together and make them sturdy.
What are ligaments?
These blood vessels carry fresh, oxygenated blood from your heart to the rest of your body.
What are arteries?
This muscle helps us breathe by moving up and down.
What is the diaphragm?
This response happens so fast, and automatically, that it does NOT go to your brain to be processed before making your body move.
What is a reflex?
This is a long, thin tube that breaks down food and helps send nutrients to different parts of the body.
What is the small intestine?
This protects your brain and gives your face/head its shape.
What is the skull?