Body System Vocabulary

Digestive System

• Breaks down food into nutrients for your body
• An organ system that allows blood to move around the body in order to transport oxygen, nutrients, and waste through your body
• Removes nonsolid wastes from body
• Connects brain to all tissues and organs in the rest of the body
• None

Circulatory System

• An organ system that allows blood to move around the body in order to transport oxygen, nutrients, and waste through your body
• Breaks down food into nutrients for your body
• Connects and moves the bones
• Breaks down food into nutrients for your body
• None

Respiratory System

• Group of organs that exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide
• Breaks down food into nutrients for your body
• Removes nonsolid wastes from body
• Protects organs, gives the body its shape
• None

Nervous System

• Breaks down food into nutrients for your body

• Connects and moves the bones

• Connects brain to all tissues and organs in the rest of the body

• Releases non solid waste

Muscular System

• Connects and moves the bones
• Breaks down food into nutrients for your body
• Removes nonsolid wastes from body
• Protects organs, gives the body its shape
• None

Skeletal System

• Protects organs, gives the body its shape
• An organ system that allows blood to move around the body in order to transport oxygen, nutrients, and waste through your body
• Breaks down food into nutrients for your body
• Removes nonsolid wastes from body
• None

Excretory System

• Removes wastes from body
• An organ system that allows blood to move around the body in order to transport oxygen, nutrients, and waste through your body
• Breaks down food into nutrients for your body
• Connects brain to all tissues and organs in the rest of the body
• None

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-3

Breaks down food into nutrients for your body

• Digestive System
• Circulatory System
• Respiratory System
• Excretory System
• None

An organ system that allows blood to move around the body in order to transport oxygen, nutrients, and waste through your body

• Circulatory System
• Digestive System
• Nervous System
• Respiratory System
• None

Group of organs that exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide

• Respiratory System
• Circulatory System
• Nervous System
• Excretory System
• None