Characteristics of Human Life
Body Regions
Homeostasis
Body Systems
Science Potpourri
100
The characteristic that describes the removal of CO2 from the body.
What is respiration OR excretion?
100
The cheek.
What is the buccal region?
100
The definition of homeostasis?
What is the condition and REGULATION of a stable INTERNAL environment?
100
The heart, arteries, veins, and capillaries belong to this system.
What is the cardiovascular system?
100
The third planet from the sun.
What is Earth?
200
Reaction to a change (stimulus) either inside or outside the body.
What is responsiveness?
200
What is the forearm and arm?
What are antebrachial and brachial?
200
The homeostatic range for body temperature is closest to 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit, which is this in Celsius.
What is 37 degrees?
200
This system includes the body's largest organ.
What is the integumentary system?
200
6CO2 + 6H2O --> C6H12O6 + 6O2 + ATP
What is photosynthesis?
300
The expansion and contraction of a muscle.
What is movement?
300
3 regions that are located on the anterior surface of the body.
What are sternal, mammary, pectoral, umbilical, abdominal, inguinal, celiac, or genital?
300
Interprets a stimulus.
What is a receptor?
300
In addition to movement and support, the skeletal system also provides this function.
What is protection of inner organs OR blood cell production?
300
The buildup of CO2 in our atmosphere that is impacting climate.
What is the greenhouse effect or global warming or climate change?
400
These two characteristics are most often connected: one describes the passage of substances through membranes, while the other describes the changing of substances into chemically different forms.
What are absorption and assimilation?
400
The gluteal, sacral, lumbar, and vertebral regions are all located here?
What is the dorsal or posterior area of the body?
400
These most often are include muscles and or glands.
What are effectors?
400
Organs of this system include the pituitary gland, the thyroid, testes, and adrenal glands.
What is the endocrine system?
400
The author of "The Origin of the Species" and the name of the islands that he collected specimens from to arrive at his explanations for the book.
Who is Charles Darwin and the Galapagos Islands?
500
Salad being chewed, mixed with saliva, and swallowed is an example of the first stages of this characteristic.
What is digestion?
500
The armpit, back of the knee, neck, wrist, and ankle --respectively (in order).
What are axillary, popliteal, cervical, carpal, and tarsal?
500
The stimulus, receptor, set point, and effectors (2) for a rise in body temperature.
What are heat, brain/nervous system, 37 degrees Celsius, sweat glands, blood vessels, and heart (increase blood flow)?
500
5 parts of the respiratory system.
What are the nasal cavity, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchi, and lungs?
500
Five elements and their symbols.
What are ....(see Periodic Table).