Planes and cavities
What is the balance or regulating system of the body?
Homeostasis
This is the first step in the scientific method.
Identifying a research question
What is the study of how living things function or work?
Physiology
This system helps to fight infection and disease. What system is it?
Immune system
This is the backside of the body. What plane is it?
Dorsal or posterior
The respiratory system helps to keep us balanced and regulated by getting rid of this cellular byproduct. What is the byproduct of respiration?
Carbon dioxide
What are the 4 questions you must answer when you organize the study?
How, where, when and by whom?
Describe anatomical position.
Facing forward, feet slightly apart and palms forward.
This part of the blood comes running when infection is in the body. What part of the blood fights infection?
White blood cells.
This cavity contains the brain. What cavity is it?
Cranial cavity
This type of feedback happens when your body temperature rises and you begin to sweat. What type of feedback is this?
Negative feedback
This data is considered what type when it deals with numbers?
Quanitative data
What is the study of form and structure of all living things?
What is the medical term used when we have a fever?
Hyperpyrexia
Transverse plane
When we use the word "receptor" in the monitoring system of the body, what other word means the same thing?
Receiving
What step in the scientific research is the educated guess?
Hypothesis
This cavity contains the nose, sinuses and part of the throat.
Nasal cavity
This plane has several names, one is anterior. What is one of the other names?
Frontal or ventral
This cavity houses the stomach, small and large intestine, gallbladder, liver, pancreas and spleen. What cavity is it?
Abdominal cavity
Red blood cells are part of the homeostasis system. What are the two things red blood cells carry to all the tissues?
What is not part of a hypothesis?
A hunch or a feeling.
What is the study of what you can see with your eyes?
Gross anatomy
This mechanism is an ongoing chemical reaction to help build up and break down food.
Metabolism
My heart and lungs are found in this cavity.
When a female goes into labor it is part of a feedback loop. What do we call the feedback loop?
Positive feedback
Step 6 deals with the results from the study. What is this step called?
Intrepeting and discussing the results
The spinal cord is the only thing in this cavity. What is the cavity?
Spinal cavity
What is another name for effector in the negative feedback loop?
Effect or response
This cavity only contains the eyes.
Oribital cavity
What factors cause imbalances in homeostasis? Name one.
Age, environment, organ systems that areunable to maintain normal function.
This last step of the scientific method is using the results to explain the findings. What is the name of this last step?
Deriving conclusions from the results
Hypothalamus
This feedback loop increases abnormal conditions to help with homeostasis.
Positive feedback
Your bladder and appendix is contained in this cavity for both men and women.
Pelvic cavity
When we have too much glucose in the body we convert that molecule into what substance before storing it in the liver?
Glycogen
Empirical research means what?
Verifiable by observation or experience.
What organ converts glucose to glycogen?
Liver
Triangle or pointing straight up.