Integumentary/Skeletal
Fill in the blank: The skeleton is essential for protecting organs, producing blood cells, and storing essential _____.
What is minerals.
What is the origin of the name "muscles"?
What is the Latin prefix "mus" meaning little mouse.
Where are the brain and spinal cord stored?
What is the central nervous system.
The endocrine system produces ______ that is released into the blood.
What is hormones.
What does the cardiovascular system deliver to the body tissues?
What is oxygen and nutrients.
The adult skeleton is composed of how many bones?
What is 206 bones.
What do the muscles do to generate the force to move?
What is contracting.
What are the two types of cells that make up the nervous tissue?
What is supporting cells and neurons.
What is the scientific study of hormones and endocrine organs called?
What is endocrinology.
What is the major function of the cardiovascular system?
What is transportation of blood.
There are two types of bones, one of them being compact bones and the other being _____.
What is spongy bones.
What is attached to the fibrous skeleton of the heart?
What is endomysium.
What two types of signals are used in the nervous system for communication?
What are the electrical and chemical signals.
What is a referred to name for a given hormone that only affects tissue cells or organs?
What are target cells or target organs.
How many chambers does the heart have?
What is four chambers.
In order, what are the anatomical names of the adult skeleton's long bone, flat bone, irregular bone, and short bone?
What are humorous, sternum, vertebra, and talus.
What are the three speeds of contraction?
What is slow to fast, slow, and very slow.
The cell body is the metabolic center of _____.
What is the neuron.
What do the hormones released by the endocrine glands do?
What is alter the activity of target cells.
What happens when ventricles relax?
What is the purpose of bone markings?
What is revealing where muscles, tendons, and ligaments attach.
What are the three types of muscular systems?
What is skeletal, cardiac, and smooth.
A functional junction, where an impulse is transmitted from one neuron to another is called a ______.
What is synapse.
What is a protein hormone (PRL) structurally similar to?
What is growth hormones.
How many times do atrial cells beat per minute in the heart?
What is 60 times.