Organ Systems
The fist-sized, muscular organ located near the center of the chest that is a major part of the circulatory system.
What is the heart?
This organ controls our thoughts, movements, decisions, and memories.
What is the brain?
The four compartments that make up the heart.
What are chambers?
The main organs in the respiratory system (there are two of them).
What are your lungs?
This organ is shaped like a fish and plays a large role in the digestive system by producing pancreatic juices that break down the food you eat.
What is the pancreas?
The system by which our bodies break down our food; includes the stomach and both large and small intestines.
What is the digestive system?
The point where two bones meet.
What is a joint?
The blood vessels that carry your blood back to your heart
What are veins?
The gas that your lungs take from the air you breathe and put in your blood, which your blood then carries to all parts of your body.
What is oxygen?
The greenish-yellow liquid that is stored in a small sac called the gall bladder; used to break down the fat from the food we eat.
What is bile?
Your kidneys play an important role in this system by taking waste products out of your blood.
What organs are important to the excretory system?
The messengers that carry signals to all parts of your body, telling it what to do.
What are nerves?
These tiny blood vessels surround the air sacs.
What are capillaries?
What happens to the carbon dioxide within our bodies?
The digestive process starts here.
What process begins in the mouth?
By taking oxygen from the air you breathe and putting it into your blood, your lungs play a huge role in this system.
What is the respiratory system?
The soft spongy tissue inside your bones that produces red blood cells for your blood.
What is bone marrow?
The tissues that connect your muscles to your bones.
What are tendons?
This organ stores urine until it is eliminated from the body.
What does the urinary bladder do?
The largest internal organ in the human body
What is the liver?
Without this system, you would be a puddle of organs and skin with no ability to stand up or move around.
What is the skeletal system?
The bundle of nerves that connects your brain to the rest of your body and relays messages back and forth from the brain to different parts of the body.
What is your spinal cord?
The muscles your stomach that push food through your digestive system.
What are smooth muscles?
The organs that filter your blood, removing waste and extra water.
What are kidneys?
This organ is part of your digestive system. It sucks out extra liquid from digested food before the digested food is extracted from your body.
What is your large intestine?