Brainiac Attack
This part of a neuron makes up a white matter.
What is the axon?
You use this muscle every time you smile, frown, or make a funny face in class.
What are facial muscles?
This skin receptor allows you to feel a light touch, such as a feather brushing your hand.
What is a Meissner corpuscle?
This type of joint allows the widest range of movement.
What is a ball-and-socket joint?
The minor calyces and a major calyx are located in this part of the kidney
What is pelvis?
This protective structure surrounds the brain and is made of three layers of connective tissue.
What are the meninges?
After holding a plank for several minutes, muscles begin to shake because they are experiencing this.
What is muscle fatigue?
When your body becomes too hot, this process increases blood flow near the skin to release heat.
What is widening of your blood vessels (vasodilation)?
An athlete tears this tough tissue that connects muscle to bone, causing difficulty moving the affected area.
What is a tendon?
What are water, salts and urea?
This brain region controls breathing, heart rate, and other life-supporting functions.
What is the brainstem?
This connective tissue surrounds individual muscle fibers and helps organize muscle tissue.
What is fascia?
This type of skin cancer is the most dangerous because it spreads quickly to other organs.
What is melanoma?
A doctor examines an X-ray and sees a break in the middle of a long bone. This injury is called this.
What is a fracture?
This organ is a main detox center.
What is liver?
This structure connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain, allowing them to communicate.
What is the corpus callosum?
This muscle group at the back of the upper arm helps straighten the elbow.
What is the triceps?
When you accidentally cut your finger, blood platelets and a protein called fibrin work together to form this protective structure.
What is a blood clot (or scab)?
This system works with the skeletal system to produce movement by pulling on bones.
What is the muscular system?
Urea is being excreted via these two organs..
What are kidney and skin?
A person who damages this part of the brain may have difficulty forming new memories.
What is the hippocampus?
During chicken dissection you observed two muscles: one that bends a joint and one that straightens it
What are flexors and extensors?
This structure at the base of a hair follicle contains living cells that divide to produce new hair growth.
What is the hair bulb?
A person loses the ability to produce enough red blood cells because this bone tissue is damaged.
What is bone marrow?
A patient’s kidneys cannot maintain proper salt and water balance. This important process controlled by the kidneys is disrupted.
What is homeostasis?