Anatomy & Physiology & Regions
Body Systems
Directional Terms & Planes
Body Cavities
Regions, Quadrants & Life Functions
100

This is the study of body structure.

What is anatomy? 

100

This body system provides support, protection, and gives the body its shape.

What is the skeletal system?

100

This plane divides the body into right and left sections.

What is the sagittal (midsagittal) plane?

100

This cavity contains the brain.

What is the cranial cavity?

100

This is the common name for the axillary region.

What is the armpit?

200

This is the study of body function.

What is physiology?

200

This body system provides movement for all parts of the body.

What is the muscular system?

200

This plane divides the body into anterior and posterior sections.

What is the frontal (coronal) plane?

200

This cavity contains the spinal cord.

What is the spinal (vertebral) cavity?

200

This is the location of the popliteal region.

What is the back of the knee?

300

This is the level of organization between a single cell and an organ.

What is tissue?

300

This body system transports nutrients and gases around the body.

What is the circulatory system?

300

This plane divides the body into superior and inferior sections.

What is the transverse plane?

300

This cavity is directly superior to the abdominal cavity.

What is the thoracic cavity?

300

This abdominal region sits directly above the umbilical region, between the two hypochondriac regions.

What is the epigastric region?

400

This anatomical term refers to the region of the chin.

What is mental?

400

This body system detects impulses from the senses and acts as the control center.

What is the nervous system?

400

The elbow is this directional term relative to the wrist.

What is proximal?

400

DAILY DOUBLE: This cavity is the the upper compartment of the thoracic chest cavity, located above the heart. (need both cavity and number) 

What is the superior mediastinum? #4

400

Out of maintaining boundaries, movement, photosynthesis, and excretion, this is NOT a necessary life function.

What is photosynthesis?

500

This anatomical term refers to the region of the shin (anterior leg).

What is crural?

500

This body system is responsible for secreting hormones.

What is the endocrine system?

500

The axillary region is this directional term relative to the sternal region.

What is lateral?

500

These are the two major sections of the dorsal cavity.

What are the cranial cavity and the spinal (vertebral) cavity?

500

This term describes something the body must obtain from the environment to survive long-term, as opposed to a process the body performs internally.

What is a survival need?