Body Systems
The system that allows us to inhale oxygen and exhale carbon dioxide.
What is the respiratory system?
This is the overall term for the maintenance of balance in an organism.
What is homeostasis?
A disease that affects the heart or blood vessels.
What is cardiovascular disease?
The excessive use of alcohol.
What is alcohol abuse?
By taking this, it is known to cause an increased heart rate, blood pressure, and breath rate.
What is a stimulant?
What is the circulatory system?
When body temperature rises during exercise, the body does this to help cool the body.
What is sweating?
This disease is also known as hypertension.
What is high blood pressure?
What is sobriety?
Taking excessive amounts of one or more drugs.
What is an overdose?
This system includes the mouth, stomach and intestines.
What is the digestive system?
The hormone secreted after eating a large meal and blood sugar levels rise.
What is insulin?
This happens when there is uncontrollable growth of abnormal cells.
What is cancer?
The condition when an alcoholic experiences the need to drink increasingly greater amounts of alcohol to reach the same effect.
What is tolerance?
Condition in which it becomes necessary for a person to use the drug or have withdraw symptoms.
What is physical dependance?
The body system that regulates body temperature and metabolism.
What is the endocrine system?
The type of feedback loop that occurs when a hiker is shivering to increase his cold body temperature.
What is negative feedback?
Symptoms of this disease include shortness of breath, wheezing and coughing.
What is asthma?
The percent of alcohol present in a person's blood stream.
What is blood alcohol concentration (BAC)?
Drugs that slow the nervous system down.
What are depressants?
Place the components of multicellular organisms in order from smallest to largest
Organ system, cell, organ, organelle, tissue
What is organelle, cell, tissue, organ, organ system?
This happens when you have low blood sugar levels.
What is glycogen is released from the liver in response to glucagon.
This disease occurs when the body does not produce insulin or does not use insulin properly.
What is diabetes?
The four steps to recovery.
Use the followings terms: recovery, counseling , admission, detoxification)
What is admission, detoxification, counseling, recovery.
When the user has a chemical need for the drug.
What is physiological dependance?