The duties of this career include receiving calls from people in distress.
What is a 911 operator?
100
This system breaks down food, absorbs nutrients, and eliminates wastes.
What is the digestive system?
100
The 2 major divisions of the skeletal system.
What are axial and appendicular?
100
The main function of this system is to exchange carbon dioxide for oxygen.
What is the respiratory system?
100
This is the major function of a valve.
What is to prevent back flow of blood (keep it moving in ONE DIRECTION)?
200
People in this career field help out the medical examiner by cleaning instruments and moving bodies.
What is a morgue assistant?
200
Major parts of this system include the pituitary gland, hypothalamus, and adrenal glands.
What is the endocrine system?
200
Bones produce these cells.
What are blood cells?
200
This organ controls breathing.
What is the brain?
200
These are the four major components of blood.
What are red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and plasma?
300
This career involves responding to the scene of an accident.
What is an EMT?
300
The system responsible for filtering the blood.
What is the urinary system?
300
Bones store this two minerals.
What are calcium and phosphorus?
300
This organ is part of two systems and plays a role in diabetes.
What is the pancreas?
300
These are the waves that can be identified in an EKG graph.
What are P, QRS, and T?
400
This is the main difference between a medical examiner and a coroner.
What is a medical degree?
400
Organs in this system include the spleen and lymph nodes.
What is the immune system?
400
This structure protects the spinal cord, and this structure protects the brain.
What are the vertebral column and skull?
400
The alveoli are part of this system, and their major function is this.
What is the respiratory system and to help in gas exchange?
400
These are the three main electrical components of the heart.
What are the SA node, the AV node, and the Purkinje fibers?
500
A person in this career would be responsible for testing blood for lead, mercury, and other poisons.
What is a toxicologist?
500
In the respiratory system, the structure that covers the trachea, preventing food from going into the lungs.
What is the epiglottis?
500
This structure connects the legs to the axial skeleton.
What is the pelvic girdle?
500
Filtering and reabsorption occur in this organ.
What are the kidneys?
500
This is how the blood flows, starting in the right atrium.
What is right atrium --> tricuspid valve --> right ventricle --> pulmonary artery --> lungs --> pulmonary vein --> left atrium --> mitral valve --> left ventricle --> aorta --> body --> superior and inferior vena cavas --> right atrium?