Human Body Systems
This system provides the framework for the body, protects internal organs, and stores minerals like calcium.
Answer: What is the Skeletal System?
This is the common term for a condition where the body does not have enough red blood cells or hemoglobin, often caused by a lack of iron.
Answer: What is Anemia?
This nutrient is the body's primary source of energy and is found in foods like bread, rice, and pasta.
Answer: What are Carbohydrates?
This part of the eye is the colored ring of muscle that controls the size of the pupil.
Answer: What is the Iris?
This is the common name for the drug found in tobacco products that makes them highly addictive.
Answer: What is Nicotine?
This organ in the digestive system is responsible for the absorption of most nutrients into the bloodstream.
Answer: What is the Small Intestine?
This respiratory disease, often contagious, is caused by bacteria that typically attack the lungs and was a major focus in past BJC papers.
Answer: What is Tuberculosis (TB)?
A lack of Vitamin C in the diet can lead to this disease, characterized by bleeding gums and poor wound healing.
Answer: What is Scurvy?
These are the two main parts of the Central Nervous System (CNS).
Answer: What are the Brain and the Spinal Cord?
This process involves treating water with chemicals like chlorine to kill harmful bacteria and make it safe to drink.
Answer: What is Chlorination (or Disinfection)?
These tiny, thin-walled blood vessels are where the actual exchange of gases and nutrients between blood and body cells occurs.
Answer: What are Capillaries?
This type of immunity is acquired when a person is given a vaccine containing weakened or dead pathogens.
Answer: What is Artificial Active Immunity?
This mineral is essential for the formation of strong bones and teeth.
Answer: What is Calcium?
This part of the ear is responsible for maintaining the body's balance and equilibrium.
Answer: What are the Semicircular Canals?
This term describes the physical, mental, and social well-being of an individual, not just the absence of disease.
Answer: What is Health?
This gland, often called the "Master Gland," is located at the base of the brain and controls other endocrine glands.
Answer: What is the Pituitary Gland?
Name two non-communicable diseases that are common in the Bahamas due to lifestyle and diet.
Answer: What are Diabetes and Hypertension (High Blood Pressure)?
This is the term for a diet that contains the correct proportions of carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, minerals, water, and fiber.
Answer: What is a Balanced Diet?
This is the gap or junction between two neurons where chemical signals (neurotransmitters) are passed.
Answer: What is a Synapse?
This type of pollution is caused by the release of excessive heat into bodies of water, often from industrial power plants.
Answer: What is Thermal Pollution?
These are the three main types of muscles found in the human body.
Answer: What are Skeletal, Smooth, and Cardiac muscles?
This vector is responsible for transmitting the pathogens that cause Dengue Fever and Malaria.
Answer: What is the Mosquito? (Specifically Aedes aegypti for Dengue and Anopheles for Malaria).
These are the four "fat-soluble" vitamins that the body can store for later use.
Answer: What are Vitamins A, D, E, and K?
This specific part of the eye contains the light-sensitive cells known as rods and cones.
Answer: What is the Retina?
In the context of waste management, these are the "3 Rs" used to reduce the impact of garbage on the environment.
Answer: What are Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle?