Organs
Digestive System
Excretory System
Vocabulary
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100

Which organ helps you body digest food? Food is stored in this organ until it is ready to be broken down.

Stomach

100

Where does the digestive system/journey begin?

Your mouth

100

What is the name liquid waste that leaves the body through your skin?

Sweat/perspiration

100

What word means to move something from one place to another? Some people might have a doctor move one of their organs from one person's body to another.

Transplant

100

Which body system contains your bones?

Skeletal

200

Which organ is the largest?

Skin

200

What is the name of the tube leading from your throat to your stomach?

Esophagus

200

Which organ stores liquid waste and swells up like a balloon when you need to go to the bathroom?

Bladder

200

Which word means very small and can only be seen using a special tool?

Microscopic
200

What is the name of your brain's system? It is named after the things that send and receive messages.

Nervous
300

Which organs are located near your lower back? You have two of them, they are shaped like a bean, and they help clean toxins from your blood.

Kidneys

300

What is the name of the watery substance created in your mouth? It helps to soften food as you chew.

Saliva

300

What is the name of the tube where liquids waste leaves your body?

Urethra 

300

What word is the unit used to measure the amount of energy in foods? You will find this on a nutrition label.

Calories

300

Other than water, what are the three main nutrients from food?

Carbohydrates, fat, and protein

400

Which organ is located above your stomach and helps your body clean blood and filter out waste?

Liver

400

Which organ is located between the small and large intestine? It was once thought to be useless and many people have them removed.

Appendix

400

What is the name of the two tubes that connect your kidneys to your bladder?

Ureters 

400

What is the passage in your throat that carries AIR (not food) to the lungs?

Windpipe

400

Who discovered bacteria?

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek

500

Organs are made up of four different types of body tissue. Name two of the four types of tissue.

Epithelial, connective, muscle, nervous

500

What is the name of the finger-like threads in the small intestine that soak up nutrients and pass them into your bloodstream?

Villi

500

What word means you don't have enough water in your body?

Dehydrated

500

What is the part of plant foods that your body can't digest but helps you digest other foods?

Fiber

500

Sailors began eating lemons and limes to get more vitamin C in their diets. Which disease did this help to prevent?

Scurvy

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