Organs
This organ processes your five senses.
What is the brain?
This system contains all your neurons.
What is the nervous system?
How do the circulatory and respiratory systems interact?
The respiratory system takes in air through the lungs so oxygen can enter the bloodstream and circulate around the body.
This is the major organ and pump of the circulatory system.
What is the heart?
This is the starting point of digestion in the body.
What is the mouth?
This organ absorbs water from feces.
What is the large intestine?
This system contains your body's largest organ.
What is the integumentary system?
How do the skeletal and muscular systems interact?
The skeletal system provides the structure and support for muscles to attach to and move against.
These are the three major types of blood vessels in the body.
What are arteries, veins, and capillaries?
These organs produce and store bile for digestion.
What are the liver and gallbladder?
This organ (muscle) is responsible for causing your lungs to expand and contract.
What is the diaphragm?
This system allows the body to move.
What is the muscular system?
How do the muscular and digestive systems interact?
The muscular system surrounds the hollow digestive organs with smooth muscle to churn the stomach and send food (chyme) through the intestines (peristalsis).
About three million of these small air sacs are found inside your lungs.
What are alveoli?
These are the two types of digestion which occur in the body.
What are chemical and mechanical digestion?
This organ has jobs across many different body systems.
What is the liver?
This system is responsible for getting what you need to grow and repair.
What is the digestive system?
How do the skeletal and circulatory systems interact?
These are the two types of chambers in the heart.
What are the atria and ventricles?
This is the tube which leads from the kidney to the bladder.
What is a ureter?
This organ is the site of insulin production.
What is the pancreas?
This system produces the body's hormones.
What is the endocrine system?
How does the excretory system interact with the integumentary, respiratory, and circulatory systems?
Waste is removed from the integumentary system via sweat, from the respiratory system by exhaling carbon dioxide, and from the circulatory system by filtering blood inside the kidneys.
This is the name of the largest artery in your body.
What is the aorta?
This compound is a way for your body to get rid of ammonia and is mostly found in urine.
What is urea?