Body Systems
Breaks food into absorbable units that can enter the blood
What is the digestive system?
Houses the heart
What is pericardial cavity?
The heart is ______ to the arms
What is Medial?
The feedback loop that negates a stimulus
What is negative feedback loop?
The Statue of Liberty was given to the US by which country?
France
Keeps blood supplied with oxygen and removes carbon dioxide
What is the respiratory system?
Houses the reproductive organs
What is pelvic cavity?
The brain is _________ to the skull
What is deep?
The feedback loop that enhances the original stimulus
What is positive feedback loop?
What part of the human body has the thinnest skin?
The eyelid
Allows manipulation of the environment, locomotion, produces heat, maintains posture
What is the muscular system
What is diaphragm?
Please define anatomical position
Arms at side, body erect, feet shoulder width apart, thumbs out / palms forward
Cold or hot air is an example of this
What is a stimulus?
In Greek mythology, who had snakes for hair and could turn people into stone if they looked at her?
Medusa
Forms external body covering, protects deeper tissues from injury, produces vitamin D
What is the Integumentary system?
What is spinal cavity?
What abdominal quadrant is the liver in?
Sends an afferent message to the control center
What is a receptor?
As of 2025, what is the population of Quincy?
(+/- 10,000)
103,000 (93,000 - 113,000)
Picks up fluid leaked from tissues, houses the white blood cells
What is the immune system?
The thoracic cavity, abdominal cavity, and pelvic cavities combined
What is ventral body cavity?
What term defines a body part being further down the arm than another body part?
What is distal?
Result of the effector's reactions; may enhance or negate the stimulus
What is a response?
This element, which has a "Valley" named after it, makes up 25 percent of the earth's crust.
Silicon Valley (San Francisco)