Word Roots
Body Systems
Homeostasis
Survival Needs
Body Cavities, Directional Terms and Planes
100
The prefix meaning "one".
What is mono-?
100
This organ system includes your sternum and ulna.
What is the skeletal system?
100
The meaning of homeostasis.
What is an equilibrium?
100
A change in the amount of this survival need can cause your lungs to work harder.
What is Oxygen?
100
If you are short, then a lot of people will be this to you.
What is superior?
200
This root word means, "the study of" something.
What is -ology?
200
This system includes your heart and veins.
What is the cardiovascular system?
200
This part of the body is given information that homeostasis has been effected.
What is a receptor?
200
This survival need is used in many chemical reactions around the body.
What is water?
200
This body cavity can make you think of a fish.
What is the dorsal cavity?
300
This root word means, "beginning".
What is -genesis?
300
This system includes your spinal cord and brain.
What is the nervous system?
300
This is the part of the body that tries to bring your body from unbalanced, to homeostasis.
What is an effector?
300
This survival need can give you more energy or cause your body weight to change, depending on how much you get.
What are nutrients?
300
This plane will cut you right down the middle, then you'd finally be able to see yourself eye-to-eye!
What is the sagittal plane?
400
This root word means, "secrete".
What is "crin"?
400
This system includes your nose and trachea.
What is the respiratory system?
400
A temperature change or psychological change, (such as fear or anxiety) causes this type of mechanism.
What is negative feedback?
400
In a few months, this survival need will be affected, especially walking to the bus stop.
What is temperature?
400
This body cavity includes your heart and other vital organs.
What is the ventral cavity?
500
This word root means, "blood".
What is hemo-?
500
This system includes your hair and skin.
What is the integumentary system?
500
An example for this type of mechanism would be an open cut, or a disease.
What is positive feedback?
500
This survival need would most definitely change if you were living in Buzz Aldrin's home away from home.
What is atmospheric pressure?
500
This plane does not divide you posterior to anterior, but if you aren't very flexible, cutting yourself down this plane might make it easier to touch your toes!
What is the transverse plane?
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