Immune system
Nervous system
Cell transport
Body systems
Membranes and homeostasis
Fast facts
100

This type of medicine fights bacterial infections, not viruses.

What are antibiotics?

100

A quick automatic response to a stimulus is called this.

What is a reflex?

100

Movement of particles from high concentration to low concentration.

What is diffusion?

100

This system breaks food down into nutrients the body can use.

What is the digestive system?

100

The plasma membrane is mainly made of this double layer.

What is the phospholipid bilayer?

100

Viruses are NOT considered this.

What are living cells?

200

Your skin is considered this type of protection against disease.

What is the first line of defense?

200

These neuron parts receive incoming signals from other neurons.

What are dendrites?

200

The diffusion of water across a membrane is called this.

What is osmosis?

200

This body system transports oxygen and nutrients throughout the body.

What is the circulatory system?


200

The “fluid mosaic model” describes the membrane as flexible and filled with these.

What are proteins?

200

This part of the neuron carries signals away from the cell body.

What is the axon?

300

These special immune cells “remember” pathogens for faster future responses.

What are memory cells?

300

The gap between two neurons where signals are passed is called this.

What is a synapse?

300

This type of transport requires energy from the cell and moves objects from low concentration to high concentration

: What is active transport

300

This system removes carbon dioxide from the body.

What is the respiratory system?

300

Homeostasis means maintaining this kind of internal environment.

What is a stable internal environment?

300

Gray matter mainly contains neuron _____ while white matter mainly contains axons.

What are cell bodies?

400

This is a substance that triggers an immune response in the body.

What is an antigen?

400

This hormone and gland are linked to the fight-or-flight response.

What are adrenaline and the adrenal gland?

400

When molecules move through protein channels without using energy, it is called this.

What is facilitated diffusion?

400

The endocrine gland often called the “master gland.”

What is the pituitary gland?

400

If water moves into a cell and causes it to swell, the surrounding solution is likely this.

What is hypotonic?

400

Vaccines help the body prepare to make these protective proteins.

What are antibodies?

500

This disease weakens the immune system, making infections more dangerous.

What is AIDS?

500

These neurons carry messages from the brain and spinal cord to muscles.

What are motor neurons?

500

Draw where water will flow in hypertonic solution


500

These three systems work together closely to deliver nutrients and remove wastes.

What are the digestive, respiratory, and circulatory systems?

500

Water naturally moves toward the side with this.

What is a higher solute concentration?

500

Draw a reflex arc and include sensory neurons, motor neurons, interneurons and stimulus.