A transport system that moves things around your body using your heart, blood, and tubes called blood vessels.
What is the circulatory system?
100
Digestion starts here, where food gets moistened and mashed.
What is the teeth and/or mouth?
100
In your circulatory system, these blood vessels carry oxygen depleted blood back to your heart.
What are veins?
100
When we breathe, oxygen and this gas are exchanged in the lungs.
What is carbon dioxide?
100
Urine is stored here before leaving the body.
What is the bladder?
200
The body system that filters out waste such as urine and sweat.
What is the excretory system?
200
This is the long, muscular tube that carries food from the mouth to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
200
Blood vessels that carry oxygenated blood away from the heart and to the rest of the body.
What are arteries?
200
Also known as your windpipe, this tube carries air from the larynx to the lungs.
What is the trachea?
200
The mixture of waste and water filtered from the blood.
What is urine?
300
The human body system that takes in oxygen and gives off carbon dioxide.
What is the respiratory system?
300
After leaving the small intestine, food moves into the large intestine, often referred to as this, where water is removed and waste products are stored until removed from the body.
What is the colon?
300
The tubes, including arteries, veins, and capillaries, that carry blood throughout the body.
What are blood vessels?
300
The voicebox
What is the larynx?
300
When you sweat, you feel cooler due to this water cycle process.
What is evaporation?
400
The human body system that converts food into fuel and waste products.
What is the digestive system?
400
A soupy mixture created in your stomach before it moves into your small intestine.
What is chyme?
400
Blood from the body enters the heart through this chamber.
What is the right atrium?
400
When you breathe in, this dome-shaped muscle under your ribs contracts and lowers, allowing air to enter your lungs.
What is a diaphragm?
400
Small amounts of waste product released from the skin by glands of the same name.
What is sweat?
500
Part of the excretory system, this body system specifically refers to the functions of the kidney and bladder.
What is the urinary system?
500
These tiny, fingerlike structures cover the walls of the small intestine and give it more surface area to absorb nutrients.
What are villi?
500
After moving into the lungs, blood returns to this part of the heart before moving onto the left ventricle and then back through the body.
What is the left atrium?
500
Tiny blood vessels, found on the air sacs of the lungs, that connect arteries and veins and facilitate the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide.
FYI: Air sacs are the pouches at the end of the bronchioles where oxygen enters the blood and carbon dioxide is removed.
What are capillaries?
500
A pair of organs that cleans your blood by filtering out liquid waste.