Lesson 5: Animal Structures Vocab

Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart

A material consisting of solid parts floating in liquid plasma, which moves substances through an animal's body.

The process of moving blood and the materials it carries, through an animal's body.

The process that breaks down food into smaller substances that the body can use.

A pump made of muscle that moves blood through the body

A digestive structure that removes water from undigested food.

Ballon-like structures in the bodies of some animals that take in air and release waste.

A digestive structure that mixes digestive juices with food and absorbs useful parts of the food.

A digestive structure lined with muscles that stir food and mix it with digestive juices.

Blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart.