STEM Careers
The 'E' in STEM
What is engineering?
Smallest basic unit of an element
What is an atom?
Toward the head
What is superior?
Cavity located in the skull
What is cranial?
shows a change in the body's internal condition
What is positive feedback?
Two-year college degree
What is an associate degree?
Groups of atoms bonded together
What are molecules?
Away from the surface
What is deep?
Cavity located below the thoracic cavity and above the pelvic cavity
What is abdominal?
All body systems have three components. Name one
What is receptor or control center or effector?
Two to three year graduate degree, after a bachelor's
What is a Master's degree?
A category of tissue type
What is epithelial/connective/muscular/nervous
Toward the front of the body
What is anterior?
Cavity located at the front of the trunk
What is ventral?
This system consists of glands
What is endocrine?
Apprentice works alongside a professional
What is an apprenticeship?
Term for nerve cells
What are neurons?
Quadrant that house the reproductive organs
What is LLQ (left lower quadrant)?
Cavity located close to the spine in the posterior portion of the body
What is dorsal?
Monitors the core temperature by taking the temperature of the blood as it flows through the vessels in the brain
What is thermoregulatory center?
Training that is typically run by an employer or union
What is on-the-job training?
What is skeletal, smooth, and cardiac?
At the wall of a body cavity
What is parietal?
Cavity located superior to the diaphragm and inferior to the neck
What is thoracic?
The nervous system releases ___________, which stimulates the sweat glands
What is acetylcholine?