Skeletal
Muscular
Digestive
Respiratory/Circulatory
Nervous/Senses
100
A mineral that helps build strong bones and teeth. How much you consume now will determine how strong your bones are when you are older.
What is calcium?
100
3 types of muscle exist in the human body. What are they?
What are skeletal, smooth and cardiac?
100
There are two types of digestion that happen throughout the digestive system. What are they?
What are mechanical and chemical?
100
Name two "filters" in your nose that help keep germs out.
What are mucus and cilia?
100
Name the 3 main regions of the brain
What are the cerebrum, cerebellum and the brainstem
200
The inner most part of a bone where blood cells are produced is called the what?
What is marrow?
200
The most famous tendon in your body is named for a person in Greek mythology.
What is the Achilles tendon?
200
Name 3 different types of teeth found in the human mouth.
What are incisors, canines, bicuspids, molars
200
The tube that runs from your mouth to your lungs and is lined with cartilage rings for support is called the what?
What is the trachea?
200
How are the autonomic and somatic parts of the nervous system different?
What is voluntary and involuntary control?
300
The spongy substance BETWEEN bones that provides a cushion is called
What is cartilage?
300
A pair of muscles that work together by contracting and relaxing are called what?
What are antagonistic muscles?
300
Name all the organs that work together to digest a piece of pizza.
What are the mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, pancreas and liver.
300
What are the two valves that separate the atria from the ventricles in the heart?
What are the bicuspid and mitral valves?
300
The path a nerve signal takes from the body to the brain is
What is an electrical signal enters the dendrite, travels to cell body, is processed by the nucleus, sent down the axon to the axon terminal where it becomes a chemical signal which travels across the synapse to the next dendrite.
400
The skull and spinal column are an example of this kind of joint.
What is a pivot joint?
400
Muscles are filled with extra cell factories so they have extra oxygen when needed. What are these organelles called?
What are mitochondria?
400
Name 1 of the 3 sections of the Large Intestine.
What are the duodenum, jejunum and ileum
400
The process by which oxygen is exchanged for carbon dioxide in the alveoli, where molecules move from an area of high concentration to an area of lesser concentration is called?
What is diffusion
400
A cochlear implant helps a deaf person hear by what process?
What is using technology to bypass the sound receptors in the cochlea to send messages to the brain.
500
Name the 23 bones of the body we learned in class.
What are the cranium, maxilla, mandible, clavicle, sternum, rib, scapula, humerus, radius, ulna, carpals, metacarpals, phalanges, vertebrae, pelvis, coccyx, femur, patella, tibia, fibula, tarsals, metatarsals, phalanges.
500
When Water and Oxygen are combined to produce Glucose, Carbon Dioxide and energy in the form of ATP, what process has occurred?
What is aerobic respiration?
500
What is the valve between esophagus and the stomach called?
What is the gastroesophageal sphincter?
500
The path that blood flows through the heart beginning with deoxygenated blood in the superior vena cava and ending in the body.
What is deoxygenated blood in the superior vena cava, through a valve into the right atrium, through the bicuspid valve into the right ventricle, out the pulmonary artery to the lungs to get oxygen. Oxygenated blood in the pulmonary vein to the left atrium, through the mitral valve, to the left ventricle, out the aorta, to the body.
500
Name 3 parts of the eye.
What are the cornea, lens, sclera, aqueous humor, iris, pupil, retina, optic nerve
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