Body Organs
Medical Terms
Ancient Egypt
Life Processes
Functions of Organs
100

This organ pumps blood through your body.

What is the heart?

100

A doctor finds these signs that show you might be sick, like a fever or a cough.

What are symptoms?

100

Ancient Egyptians preserved bodies by doing this process.

What is mummify?

100

This is the process of taking in food and using it for energy.

What is nutrition?

100

This organ helps with breathing by contracting and relaxing to move air in and out of your lungs.

What is the diaphragm?

200

This organ is responsible for breathing and getting oxygen into your blood.

What are the lungs?

200

This is what a doctor makes when they determine what illness you have based on your symptoms.

What is a diagnosis?

200

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?

200

This life process is how organisms get rid of waste materials.

What is excretion?

200

This organ produces substances like bile and helps detoxify harmful materials in the body.

What is the liver?

300

This organ helps you think, control your body, and feel emotions.

What is the brain?

300

These are clues a doctor looks for to confirm a diagnosis.

What is evidence?

300

This is the type of life that Ancient Egyptians believed followed after death.

What is the afterlife?

300

This process involves releasing energy by breathing in oxygen and breathing out carbon dioxide.

What is respiration?

300

This organ stores urine until the body is ready to release it.

What is the bladder?

400

This organ breaks down food in your body and sends it to the intestines.

What is the stomach?

400

This is a written order from a doctor that lets you get medicine from a pharmacy.

What is a prescription?

400

During mummification, organs like the stomach and intestines were put in these containers.

What are jars?

400

Plants do this to make more of their kind, but they do it in a different way than animals.

What is reproduce?

400

This tube carries food from your mouth to your stomach.

What is the food pipe?

500

This organ filters your blood and creates urine.

What are the kidneys?

500

This machine helps a doctor see inside your body, such as your organs.

What is a scan?

500

Ancient Egyptians didn’t consider this organ important, so they removed and discarded it during mummification.

What is the brain?

500

Living things do this when they get bigger over time.

What is growth?

500

This part of your body removes water from food and creates waste to be excreted.

What is the large intestine?