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Circulatory System
Excretory and Respiratory Systems
Digestive System
Endocrine and Nervous Systems
Skeletal, Integumentary and Muscular
100

This blood vessel carries blood away from the heart.

What is an artery?

100

This organ filters the blood gets rid of wastes from the body.

What is the kidney?

100

This is the definition of digestion.

What is "to break down food"?

100

This is the official name of our nerve cells.

What is a neuron?

100

The largest organ in your body is part of the integumentary system. What organ is this?

What is the skin?

200

This blood cell carries oxygen in your blood vessels.

What is a red blood cell?

200
This waste product gas is exhaled by the lungs each time you breathe.

What is carbon dioxide?

200

This tube that connects the mouth and the stomach does not have a role in digesting food.

What is the esophagus?

200

This chemical messenger travels through the blood to reach its target cell, but can affect the whole body.

What is a hormone?

200

The ligaments hold these body structures together.

What are the bones?
300
This blood vessel is where gas exchange occurs in the body.

What is a capillary?

300
After the kidneys filter your blood, they send the waste products to this organ so you can pee them out.

What is the bladder?

300
The stomach produces this material to help break down food.

What is stomach acid?

300

This body system sends signals more slowly, but the signals are able to reach the whole body.

What is the endocrine system?

300

The pigment in our skin called that gives our skin color and protects us from UV radiation.

What is melanin?

400

This process in the lungs brings oxygen into the body and gets rid of carbon dioxide. It occurs in the alveoli.

What is (pulmonary) gas exchange?

400

This structure in your lungs is shaped like a bunch of grapes. It brings oxygen into your blood.

What is the alveoli?

400

Water is absorbed in this part of the large intestine.

What is the colon?

400

This body part connects the brain to the rest of the body.

What is the spinal cord?

400

The bones help maintain homeostasis of this nutrient.

What is calcium?

500

This disease occurs when a blood clot blocks blood flow to part of the brain.

What is a stroke?

500

The kidney helps maintain homeostasis of this important thing in your body.

What is water?

500

This is the structure in the small intestine that absorbs nutrients.

What are the villi?
500

The nervous system sends this type of signal.

What is a nerve impulse? (Or electrical signal)

500

What type of muscle tissue is responsible for moving things (like blood, food or urine) through the body?

What is smooth muscle tissue?