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This organ produces bile to help digest fats.
What is the liver?
These items are transported throughout the body by the circulatory system.
What are oxygen, nutrients, hormones, and waste products?
Main organ in the respiratory system responsible for exchanging gases.
What are the lungs?
This organ is the control center of the nervous system.
What is the brain?
This organ filters blood to produce urine.
What is the kidney?
Immune system produces this protein to help destroy pathogens.
What are antibodies?
The organ where MOST digestion and absorption of nutrients occurs.
What is the small intestine?
Blood vessels that carry oxygen rich blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
Medical term for the tube that carries oxygen from the throat to the bronchi?
What is the trachea?
The name for the part of the nervous system that is made up of the brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system?
This tube carries urine from the bladder to the outside of the body.
What is the urethra?
These are the foreign substances that trigger an immune response in the body.
What are antigens?
These tissues contract to produce movement in the body.
What are muscles?
Liquid part of blood that carries nutrients, hormones, and waste products.
What is plasma?
Tiny air sacs in the lungs where gas exchange occurs.
What are alveoli?
Cells that transmit electrical impulses in the nervous system.
What are neurons?
Muscular organ that stores urine until it is ready to be expelled.
What is the bladder?
This system carries lymph, a fluid containing infection-fighting white blood cells, throughout the body.
What is the lymphatic system?
Mineral that is essential for strong bones and teeth.
What is calcium?
The component of blood helps with clotting and prevents excessive bleeding.
What are platelets (thrombocytes)?
Name of the muscle that contracts and relaxes to help you breath in and out.
What is the diaphragm?
The function of the spinal cord in the nervous system.
What is to transmit signals between the brain and spinal cord (& control reflexes)?
Tube that transports urine from the kidneys to the bladder.
What is the ureter?
These structures trap bacteria and other pathogens in the throat and help protect the body from infection.
What are the tonsils?
Female reproductive organ that produces eggs.
What are ovaries?
The smallest blood vessels where oxygen and nutrients are exchanged with tissues.
What are capillaries?
The process of takin oxygen into the body and releasing carbon dioxide.
What is respiration?
A quick, automatic response to a stimulus that does not involve the brain.
What is a reflex?
The process in which the body removes waste products and excess water through urine.
What is excretion?
This organ located in the upper left part of your abdomen filters blood and helps fight infections.
What is the spleen?