What are heredity, environment, media, technology, healthcare and behavior
100
How do you keep your kidneys functioning at their best?
What are drinking water and treating infections
100
place where 2 or more bones come together
What is a joint
100
3 types of neurons
What are sensory, interneurons, and motor neurons
100
3 main types of blood vessels in the body
What are arteries, capillaries, and veins
200
Any action or condition that increases the likelihood of injury, disease, or other negative outcome
What is a risk factor
200
The process by which the body collects and removes waste
What is excretion
200
ossification
What is the process by which cartilage is replaced by bone
200
control center of the body AND includes these parts
What is central nervous system AND brain/spinal cord
200
4 components of blood
What are plasma, red and white blood cells, and platelets
300
Beliefs and patterns of behavior shared by a group of people and passed from generation to generation
What is culture
300
Major organs of excretion
What are the kidneys
300
Marrow. Types, where they can be found and each does...
What are red-found in spaces of spongy bone, produces blood cells AND yellow-found in hollow centers of long bone, stores fat
300
3 main regions of the brain
What are cerebrum, cerebellum, brain stem
300
2 factors that increase your risk of heart attack and stroke AND when these factors may begin
What are hypertension and high blood cholesterol AND your teens
400
Name the 2 goals of Healthy People 2010
What are increase years of healthy life for each American and eliminate differences in health based on race ethnic group, or income
400
Ways to treat kidney failure
What are dialysis and transplant
400
Ways to keep skeletal system healthy
What are: eating well, exercising, avoiding bone/joint injuries, and regular medical checkups
400
3 parts of brain stem AND what they do
What is midbrain-reaction to loud noise or bright light, pons-breathing aids cerebellum in coordinating info, and medulla-controls heart rate, blood pressure, and swallowing (among other automatic funtions)
400
respiratory system is responsible for
What is bringing oxygen from outside body in and removing carbon dioxide from the body.
500
Growing foods in a community garden that can provide a healthier diet for them and their neighbors is on type of this health skill?
What is advocacy
500
The nephrons filter waste in stages. Very briefly, describe those stages.
What are: both materials and waste are filtered from the blood, then, most needed materials are returned to the blood and wastes are eliminated from the body.
500
5 main roles of the skeletal system
What are support, protect, movement, store essential substances, production of materials-
500
main functions of the cardiovascular system
What are delivering materials to cells, carrying waste away, and contains cells that fight disease
500
5 ways to keep respiratory system healthy
What are avoid smoking and air pollution, treating asthma if you have it, avoid respiratory infections,exercise regularly, and maintain a healthy weight