Homeostasis
Anatomical Terms
Characteristics and Requirements of Humans
Body Systems
Science Potpourri
100
Homeostasis is...
What is the regulation of a stable internal environment?
100
Six terms describing areas of the head.
What are cephalic, occipital, frontal, buccal, mental, oral, otic, orbital, and nasal?
100
Most abundant chemical in the human body.
What is water?
100
Ligaments & tendons. Main source of body heat.
What is the muscular system?
100
The third planet from the Sun.
What is Earth?
200
This receives the stimulus.
What is a receptor?
200
Behind the knee. The shoulder. Armpit. The middle of the chest. The ribs. The belly button.
What are popliteal, acromial, axillary, sternal, costal, and umbilical?
200
Makes up 1/5 of ordinary air.
What is oxygen?
200
Lungs and nasal cavity. Gas exchange.
What is the respiratory system?
200
The symbols for carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur.
What are CHNOPS?
300
The homeostatic component that indicates a particular value. For example, a temperature of 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit or blood pressure of 110/70.
What is set point or control center?
300
The fingers relative position to the wrist.
What is distal?
300
Substances that you eat that provides raw materials for building new matter or to help regulate vital chemical reactions within the body.
What is food?
300
Kidneys and blood. Electrolyte balance in the blood.
What is the urinary system?
300
The cellular site of photosynthesis.
What is the chloroplast?
400
The main difference between positive and negative feedback systems.
What is that a positive feedback system creates an amplification (increase) or greater change in the same direction and is short-lived, while a negative feedback system moves the change back toward the set point and is often of longer duration?
400
The cavity that is superior to the belly button.
What is the thoracic cavity?
400
A product of metabolic reactions in the body.
What is heat?
400
Hair, nails, sweat glands. Sensory reception and synthesis of vitamin D.
What is the integumentary system?
400
The site of cellular respiration in animal cells.
What is the mitochondria?
500
Eating a pretzel caused this to happen to Ben.
What is a shift in blood osmolarity? (or increased dehydration)
500
The body section that would divide the body into anterior and posterior portions.
What is a midline?
500
Imperative for breathing, as well as for moving blood through blood vessels.
What is pressure?
500
Tonsils, spleen, thymus. Defense against pathogens.
What is the endocrine system?
500
The main difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells?
What is a nucleus?