Ch 1
The term that is closely associated with homeostasis.
What is stability?
To do work, living things need
What is energy?
A group of similar cells that perform a similar function is called
What is tissue?
Tissue that has the ability to contract is
What is muscle?
The type of tissue blood is.
What is connective?
An organ made up of all four kinds of tissues.
What is the heart?
A tissue that protects the surface of the body
What is epithelial or skin?
An example of a unicellular living thing.
What is an amoeba?
The system removes waste from the body.
What is excretory?
Number of bones in the skeletal system.
What is 206?
Bones held together by stringy connective tissue.
What are ligaments?
Flexible connective tissue.
What is cartilage?
Two minerals that make up the nonliving part of the bones.
What are calcium and phosphorus?
The place where two bones come close together.
What is a joint?
The longest bone in the body.
What is the femur?
An example of a ball-and-socket joint.
What is the shoulder or hip?
An example of a hinge joint.
What is an elbow or knee?
Skeletal muscles are also known as.
What are voluntary muscles?
When a bone is forced out of its joint.
What is dislocated?
In the digestive system, proteins are broken down into.
What are amino acids?
The tube that connects the mouth and the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
The digestion of proteins begins in the.
What is the mouth?
The nutrients that are used to build and repair the body are called.
What are proteins?
Gastric juice enzyme.
What is pepsin?
The liver produces.
What is bile?