Planes & Directional Terms
Body Systems
Homeostasis
General Anatomy
Characteristics of Life
100
The knee is _____ to the foot.
What is proximal?
100
This body system removes waste products from the blood and regulates water balance.
What is the urinary system?
100
This homeostatic mechanism maintains body temperature when you are in a cold environment.
What is shivering?
100
A living thing considered as a whole, whither it is made up of only one cell or trillions.
What is an organism?
100
This is the ability of an organism to sense changes in the environment and make adjustments that maintain its life.
What is responsiveness?
200
This plane runs vertically through the body leaving two equal parts to the left and right.
What is the Sagittal Plane?
200
This body system provides support, produces blood cells and stores minerals and fats.
What is the skeletal system?
200
This maintains the value of a homeostatic variable.
What is a receptor?
200
The _______ of organization involves interactions between atoms and their combination into molecules.
What is the chemical level?
200
This is the formation of new cells or new organisms.
What is reproduction?
300
This plane divides the body into anterior and posterior parts.
What is the coronal plane?
300
This body system is a major regulatory system that influences metabolism and growth.
What is the endocrine system?
300
This establishes the set point around which a variable is maintained.
What is the control center?
300
This is the scientific discipline that deals with the processes or functions of living things.
What is physiology?
300
This is the ability to use energy to preform vital functions, such as growth, movement, and reproduction.
What is metabolism?
400
The navel is _____ to the spine.
What is ventral?
400
This body system transports nutrients, waste products, gases and hormones throughout the body.
What is the cardiovascular system?
400
This maintains homeostasis by making a deviation smaller.
What is negative feedback?
400
This is the study of the body's external features.
What is surface anatomy?
400
These are the mental changes that an organism goes through over time.
What is development?
500
The thoracic section contains these three sub-sections.
What are the Pectoral, Sternal and Mammary sub-sections?
500
This body system provides protection, regulates temperature, prevents water loss and produces vitamin D.
What is the integumentary system?
500
This feedback mechanism is done during childbirth.
What is positive-feedback?
500
This is anatomy's literal definition.
What is "to dissect?"
500
The study of this has provided much information about human cells and the characteristics of life.
What are bacteria?
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