Body Organs
This organ pumps blood through your body.
What is the heart?
A doctor finds these signs that show you might be sick, like a fever or a cough.
What are symptoms?
Ancient Egyptians preserved bodies by doing this process.
What is mummify?
This is the process of taking in food and using it for energy.
What is nutrition?
This organ helps with breathing by contracting and relaxing to move air in and out of your lungs.
What is the diaphragm?
This organ is responsible for breathing and getting oxygen into your blood.
What are the lungs?
This is what a doctor makes when they determine what illness you have based on your symptoms.
What is a diagnosis?
Ancient Egyptians believed that this part of the body was the most important, so they left it in place during mummification.
What is the heart?
This life process is how organisms get rid of waste materials.
What is excretion?
This organ produces substances like bile and helps detoxify harmful materials in the body.
What is the liver?
This organ helps you think, control your body, and feel emotions.
What is the brain?
These are clues a doctor looks for to confirm a diagnosis.
What is evidence?
This is the type of life that Ancient Egyptians believed followed after death.
What is the afterlife?
This process involves releasing energy by breathing in oxygen and breathing out carbon dioxide.
What is respiration?
This organ stores urine until the body is ready to release it.
What is the bladder?
This organ breaks down food in your body and sends it to the intestines.
What is the stomach?
This is a written order from a doctor that lets you get medicine from a pharmacy.
What is a prescription?
During mummification, organs like the stomach and intestines were put in these containers.
What are jars?
Plants do this to make more of their kind, but they do it in a different way than animals.
What is reproduce?
This tube carries food from your mouth to your stomach.
What is the food pipe?
This organ filters your blood and creates urine.
What are the kidneys?
This machine helps a doctor see inside your body, such as your organs.
What is a scan?
Ancient Egyptians didn’t consider this organ important, so they removed and discarded it during mummification.
What is the brain?
Living things do this when they get bigger over time.
What is growth?
This part of your body removes water from food and creates waste to be excreted.
What is the large intestine?