Stage 4 Body Systems
The system that breaks down your food.
What is the digestive system?
Contains the brain and the spinal chord.
What is the central nervous system?
Chemical signals send around your body in your blood.
What are hormones?
The causal agents of infectious disease.
What is a pathogen?
The three parts of an atom.
What is a proton, neutron and electron?
Where urine drains to from the kidneys.
What is the bladder?
The part of the brain that controls functions needed to live, like breathing and heartbeats.
What is the brain stem?
The type of organs the produce and secrete hormones.
What is a gland?
A contaminated object.
What is a fomite?
The name for a positive ion, and a negative ion.
What is a cation and an anion?
The chamber of the heart that receives deoxygenated blood.
What is the left atrium?
What the peripheral nervous system contains.
What is sensory/motor neurons?
Something the body can detect and respond to.
What is stimulus?
A type of cause for non-infectious disease that involves malfunctioning cells.
What is cancer?
The sum of the protons and neutrons in the nucleus.
What is the atomic mass?
Alveoli increase the _______ ____ available for gas to diffuse into the blood.
What is surface area?
The three different types of neurons.
What is sensory neuron, interneuron and motorneruon?
A control system the body uses to maintain homeostasis, like maintaining body temperature or blood sugar levels, from getting too high or too low.
What is a negative feedback loop?
What is an endemic, and epidemic, and a pandemic?
2, 8, 8
The electron configuration for Argon.
Lowers the pressure in the lungs when contracted.
What is the diaphragm/intercostal muscles?
The junction between axon terminal and dendrite of two neurons where neurotransmitters are released.
What is a synapse?
An example of a positive feedback loop.
What is childbirth/blood clotting.
A series of proteins in your blood that target pathogens non-specifically.
What is the complement system?
Increases toward the top right of the periodic table AND the bottom left of the periodic table.
What is reactivity?