Vocabulary
Directional Terms
Organ System
Organ System
Body Regions
Characterics of Life/Needs of Living Things
100
The study of the STRUCTURE of the human body.
What is anatomy?
100
The forehead is ________ to the chin.
What is superior?
100
The heart and blood vessels.
What is cardiovascular system?
100

The main function is to obtain nutrients from food.

What is digestive system?

100

The body region that you sit on.

What is the gluteal region?

100

 This outer organ separates the entire human organism from its surrounding external environment.


What is the skin?

200
The study of the FUNCTION of the human body.
What is physiology?
200
Muscles are _______ to the skin.
What is deep?
200
The main function is send chemical messages.
What is endocrine system?
200
The major organ is skin.
What is integumentary system?
200

The body region known as your neck.

What is the cervical region?

200

 This process involves the breakdown of ingested food and the absorption of simple molecules into the blood.

What is digestion?

300
The voice box.
What is the larynx?
300
The gluteus maximus is on the _______ side of the body.
What is posterior?
300
A major organ is the ureter.
What is urinary system?
300
Hematopoeisis takes place here.
What is skeletal system?
300

The body region also known as your thigh.

What the femoral region?

300

You can live for weeks without food, but only days without this necessary molecule.


What is water?

400

This fluid is made of mostly water and white blood cells and circulates alongside the veins.

What is lymph?

400
The patella (knee) is _______ to the femur (thighbone).
What is distal?
400
The major function is gas exchange.
What is respiratory system?
400
Major organ is the spleen.
What is lymphatic system?
400

The plantar region is found here.

What is the bottom of the foot?

400

The body can only function well within a narrow range of body temperature; deviation just a few degrees above or below this temperature can result in death.

What is 98.6 F or 37 C?

500

Formation of red blood cells.

What is hematopoeisis?

500
The spine is _______ to the ribcage.
What is medial?
500

The prostate belongs to this system.

What is the reproductive system?

500

This system transports the cells of the immune system.

What is the lymphatic system?

500

The region at the back of the knee.

What is the popliteal region?

500

This represents the sum total of all cellular chemical reactions, comprising these two opposing processes of molecule breakdown and molecule synthesis.

What is metabolism?

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