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Define this
Vocab 2
Systems
nervous twitch
heart and hustle
100
All the traits that are passed biologically from parent to child are considered _____.
What is heredity?
100
Name the 2 BROAD goals of Healthy People 2010.
What are increase the yrs of healthy life for each American and eliminate the differences in health based on race, ethnic group, or income.
100
As a consumer, you have the right to
What is complain if you have a problem with a product.
100
A tiny filtering unit found in the kidneys. (each kidney has about a million).
What are nephrons?
100
The heart chamber that receives blood from the lungs. The heart chamber that pumps oxygen poor blood to the lungs.
What are the left atrium, and the right ventricle.
200
define health literacy
What is the ability to gather, understand, and use healthful information to improve health.
200
The major organs of excretion
What are the kidneys.
200
Two groups of the motor division...
What are somatic nervous system and autonomic nervous system.
200
Ventricles are the upper or lower chambers?
What are lower chambers of the heart
200
Name the four components of blood.
What plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets
300
Define action plan.
What is a series of steps taken to achieve a goal.
300
The watery fluid produced by the kidneys that contains urea and other wastes is called?
What is urine.
300
To help your kidneys function at their best, it is important to_________ and _____________.
What is drink plenty of water and see a dr if you have symptoms of an infection.
300
A bruise-like injury to the brain.
What is a concussion.
300
What do platelets do?
What is aid in clotting so a scab forms and you don't bleed to death!
400
The process by which to body collects and removes wastes.
What is excretion
400
A glomerulus is
What is a cluster of tiny blood vessels found in a nephron.
400
Your skeletal system is most like which part of a building?
What is the frame
400
Explain what white and red blood cells do.
What is white: protect against disease and foreign substances, larger than red red: carry oxygen from the lungs to all the parts of your body, contain hemoglobin.
400
Tell the correct path of air as it passes through your respiratory system
What is nose, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi
500
Messages impulses, are carried from one part of your body to another by
What are neurons.
500
Name the 2 divisions of the peripheral nervous system and tell what each does.
What are sensory (carry info about your outside environment from sense organs, and carries info about internal body conditions to central nervous system) and motor (carries responses to muscles/glands)
500
Name 5 factors that you can control (from the book).
What are your level of physical activity, intake of fat/sugar/oil, use of tobacco/alcohol/ other drugs, protective gear, choice of friends, also accepted: control exposure to ultraviolet radiation (tanning booths, sunbathing), maintaining close relationships, join various community organizations to help find solutions to problems such as pollution or lack of open spaces
500
Tell what somatic and autonomic nervous systems do and give an example of each.
What is somatic-carry voluntary actions such as chewing food, putting on a sock: raising hand in class. autonomic-regulate actions that happen automatically such as breathing, digestion: heart rate increase
500
Name the 3 blood vessels that the heart pumps blood through and tell what they do-be specific.
What are the arteries-carry blood away from the heart (most carry oxygen rich blood, pulse in wrist is artery, thick walls). capillaries-branching from the smallest arteries, they are the smallest blood vessels in the body, oxygen and dissolved nutrients diffuse through capillary walls at same time, wastes diffuse into the blood. Capillaries narrow when cold to keep heat in, and expand when warm to let heat out. veins-connect arteries to veins, thin walled blood vessels, carry blood to the heart.