Tutorial Miscellaneous
Blood Vessels
Cardiac Cycle & Blood Flow
Central Nervous System
Peripheral Nervous System
100
The ability of an organism to maintain a constant internal environment.
What is homeostasis?
100
Thick-walled blood vessel that contains a significant amount of muscle and is felt to measure your pulse.
What is an artery?
100
The vessel blood is pumped into from the left ventricle.
What is the aorta?
100
The band of neural axons that allow the left and right hemispheres of the brain to communicate.
What is the corpus callosum?
100
The two divisions of the peripheral nervous system.
What are the somatic and autonomic pathways?
200
The subatomic particle that determines the identify of an element.
What is a proton?
200
The smallest vessels that allow for exchange of fluids, gases and nutrients between the blood and interstitial fluid.
What are capillaries?
200
The vessel that blood flows into when the right semilunar valve is open.
What is the pulmonary artery?
200
The areas of the spinal cord and brain that are made up of of myelinated axons.
What is white matter?
200
An automatic movement that normally serves to protect the body from harm.
What is a reflex?
300
The quantity determined by subtracting the atomic number from the atomic mass.
What is the number of neutrons?
300
Vessels that contain valves to keep blood moving in one direction.
What are veins?
300
A specialized bundle of tissue that initiates the heartbeat.
What is the SA node or pacemaker?
300
The lobe of the cerebral cortex that deals primarily with vision and visual associations.
What is the occipital lobe?
300
The two types of neurons that are found in the peripheral nervous system.
What are sensory and motor neurons? (Or the efferent and afferent neurons.)
400
One of the characteristics of living things. For example, giraffes having a long neck.
What is the ability to adapt?
400
The measurement of the force of the blood against the artery wall.
What is blood pressure?
400
The blood vessel that brings oxygen-poor blood from the heart and arms to the right atrium.
What is the superior vena cava?
400
Two areas on the left hemisphere of the brain that relate to the development and comprehension of speech and language.
What are Broca's and Wernicke's areas?
400
A division of the autonomic nervous system that is active during times of stress or excitement. It directs blood to the heart and skeletal muscles.
What is the sympathetic nervous system?
500
The same element with a different number of neutrons. For example, carbon-12 and carbon-14.
What are isotopes?
500
The measurement in blood pressure when the heart relaxes.
What is diastole?
500
The pathway that takes oxygen-rich blood from the heart to all parts of the body except the lungs.
What is systemic circulation?
500
The structure located deep within the temporal lobe that is associated with memory and learning.
What is the hippocampus?
500
Specialized cells that first detect a stimulus in a reflex arc.
What are the receptors?
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