Structural & Functional Organization
Organ Systems
Characteristics of Life
Body Cavities
Homeostasis
100
Basic living units of all plants and animals.
What are cells?
100
Provides protection and support. Allows movement, produces blood cells and stores minerals and fat.
What is the skeletal system?
100
The formation of new cells or new organisms.
What is reproduction?
100
The cavity of the body that contains the bladder, parts of the large intestines and the reproductive organs.
What is the pelvic cavity?
100
The existence and maintenance of a relatively constant environment within the body.
What is homeostasis?
200
A group of similar cells and the materials surrounding them.
What are tissues?
200
Exchanges oxygen and carbon dioxide between the blood and the air. Also regulates bloods Ph.
What is the respiratory system?
200
Results in an increase in size of all or part of an organism.
What is growth?
200
The cavity of the body that contains the stomach, intestines, liver, spleen, pancreas, and kidneys.
What is the abdominal cavity?
200
Functions to maintain homeostasis.
What is negative feedback?
300
Composed of two or more tissue types that together perform one or more common functions.
What is an organ?
300
Transports nutrients, waste products, gases, blood and hormones throughout the body.
What is the cardiovascular system?
300
The ability to use energy to perform vital functions, such as growth, movement, and reproduction.
What is metabolism?
300
Includes the brain and spinal cord.
What is the dorsal cavity?
300
Homeostatic mechanisms such as sweating or shivering to maintain an ideal normal range or ____ ______.
What is the set point?
400
A group of organs classified as a unit because of a common function or set of functions.
What is an organ system?
400
Mechanical and chemical processes of digestion. Absorption of nutrients and elimination of wastes.
What is the digestive system?
400
The changes an organism undergoes through time. Begins with fertilization and ends with death.
What is development?
400
Includes the rib cage and diaphragm.
What is the thoracic cavity?
400
Body temperature increasing and decreasing around the set point.
What is a normal range?
500
Chemical, cells, tissue, organ, organ system and organism.
What are the six structural levels?
500
Provides protection, regulates temperature, prevents water loss, and produces vitamin D.
What is the integumentary system?
500
The ability of an organism to sense change in the environment and make the adjustments that help to maintain its life.
What is responsiveness?
500
The median in the thoracic cavity.
What is the mediastinum?
500
Depends on the maintenance of fluids surrounding the cell, surroundings include, temperature, volume, and content.
What is a variable?
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