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Anatomical Terminology
Body Regions/Body Cavities
Characteristics of Life
Requirements of Life
Levels Of Organization
100
What is anatomical position?
The body is standing erect, face forward, with upper limbs at the sides and palms forward.
100
The human body can be divided into these two skeletal portions
What is axial and appendicular
100
True or false: all living things must be able to grow?
What is true
100
An application of force is called what?
What is pressure
200
Distal is the opposite of _____ ?
Proximal
200
The abdominal cavity and the pelvic cavity combined make up the single cavity
What is abdominopelvic cavity
200
What are the functions of respiration?
Obtain oxygen, remove CO2, and release energy from food
200
What is the most abundant chemical in the body?
What is water
300
Superior means that's body part is _____ another body part.
above
300
This cavity contains the brain
What is the cranial cavity
300
In the levels of organization macromolecules make up organelles, and organelles make up what?
What is cells
400
The coronal body section divides the body into ____ and ____ portions.
Anterior, posterior
400
This region separates the thoracic cavity into two compartments which contain the right and left lungs
What is the mediastinum
400
Define metabolism
The sum of the total of all the chemical reactions in the body that break substances down and build them up
400
Oxygen is used to release the energy of which drives what?
What are metabolic processes
400
Molecules combined in complex ways form what?
What is macromolecules
500
What does the term "deep" mean
Deep describes parts that are more internal than superficial.
500
The abdominal area can be subdivided into these four quadrants
What is right upper, left upper, right lower, and left lower quadrants
500
What are three ways that the necessary chemicals, provided by food, help the body?
What is an energy source, raw materials for building new living matter, and regulation of vital chemical reactions
500
All cells of the human and other complex organisms contain small structures that carry out specific activities these are called?
What is organelles