CATEGORY 1: Brain & Nervous System
What are the two components of the nervous system?
Answer: What are the central and peripheral nervous systems?
The most common wilderness emergency signal.
Answer: What is three of anything (three fires, three whistle blasts, etc.)?
Name one recommendation from the National Sleep Foundation for a good night’s rest.
Answer (examples): What is maintaining a regular sleep schedule?
The disorder in which a person uses vomiting or laxatives to prevent weight gain.
Answer: What is bulimia?
Which amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear arms?
Answer: What is the Second Amendment?
What are the three parts of a neuron?
Answer: What are the dendrite, cell body, and axon?
On what type of fire should you never use water?
Answer: What is a grease fire?
Write three physical benefits of practicing sports.
Answer (examples): What is improved strength, cardiovascular health, and flexibility?
The disorder characterized by low body weight and distorted body image.
Answer: What is anorexia?
Which receptors respond to heat and cold?
Answer: What are thermoreceptors?
This part of the brain is involved in conscious thought, memory, and interpreting sensory information.
Answer: What is the cerebral cortex?
Name two tips to avoid electrocution.
Answer (examples): What is keeping electrical devices away from water and not overloading outlets?
What part of us is strongly affected by music, according to how God designed us?
Answer: What is our emotions?
Name three types of eating disorders.
Answer: What are anorexia, bulimia, and cumpulsive overeating?
Name the only two types of poisonous snakes in North America.
Answer: What are pit vipers and coral snakes?
The second largest part of the brain.
Answer: What is cerebellum?
Name three of the five basic guidelines for recreational safety.
Answer (examples): What is knowing your limits, using the proper equipment, and never swimming alone?
What is a measure of how much you value, respect, and feel confident about yourself?
Answer: What is self-esteem?
Which two gateways to the mind strongly influence thoughts and actions?
Answer: What are sight and hearing?
According to statistics, how many accidents occur at home each year?
Answer: What is about 7 million?
Relay signals from the CNS to other parts of the body.
Answer: What are motor neurons?
What is the leading cause of accidental death in elderly people in the U.S.?
Answer: What is motor fall accidents?
What type of stress involves strong pressure or anxiety?
Answer: What is distress?
What do chemoreceptors detect?
Answer: What are chemicals (such as in taste and smell)?
Most of the higher thought processes occur in this part of the brain.
Answer: What is the cerebral cortex?