Human Body Vocabulary Quiz

Organ System

• Sounds Interesting!

• A group of tissues that work together for the overall function of the organ

• To take possession after executing a plan of action.

• A group of organs that work together to perform a major function.

Gland

• An organ that produces and releases chemicals either through ducts or into the bloodstream.

• The sprouting of the embryo out of a seed; occurs when the embryo resumes its growth following dormancy.

• A secreting cell or group of cells on or within a plant structure

• Sounds Delicious

Stress

• My life!

• The reaction of a person’s body to potentially threatening, challenging, or disturbing events.

• A force that acts on rock to change its shape or volume

• A state of worry or mental tension caused by a difficult situation.

Response

• Who Cares!

• An action or change in behavior that occurs as a result of a stimulus.

• A reaction to something.

• Written or verbal answer to a question in a test, questionnaire, survey, etc

Tissue

• Something I blow my nose with!

• Connective tissue, epithelial tissue, muscle tissue, and nervous tissue

• A group of similar cells that perform a specific function.

• Provide shape to the body and help body to conserve heat and store energy

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Stimulus

• Something that rouses or incites to activity

• Any change or signal in the environment that can make an organism react in some way.

• A check from the government.

• Check

  Check

  Check

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Organ

• A body structure that is composed of different kinds of tissues that work togethe

• The gallbladder, the pancreas, and the stomach.

• A keyboard instrument of one or more pipe divisions or other means for producing tones

• Come on Bro!

Digestions

• The process that breaks complex molecules of food into smaller nutrient molecules.

• An organism that gets energy by breaking down biotic wastes and dead organisms and returns raw materials to the soil and water.

• The bending or spreading of waves as they move around a barrier or pass through an opening.

• Organisms, these smaller substances are absorbed through the small intestine into the blood stream.

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Absorption

• The process by which nutrient molecules pass through the wall of the digestive system into the blood.

• The fact or state of being engrossed in something.

• The digested products are transported into the blood or lymph through the mucous membrane.

• HUH!

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Enzyme

• Did we even learn about this ?

• A type of protein that speeds up chemical reactions in the bod

• Help facilitate biochemical reactions in our bodies.

• Sounds scary

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