Body System
Body system that helps you digest food
What is the Digestive System.
Main Organ in central nervous system
What is the Brain?
Disease where you cannot control blood sugar levels
What is Diabetes
A disease that can spread from person to person
What is an infectious disease?
Line of defence that contains skin and stomach acid
What is the first line of defence?
The process where the body maintains a constant internal environment
What is Homeostasis
Element number 1 on the periodic table
What is Hydrogen?
Body system that moves nutrients around the body
What is the Circulatory system
Special type of cell of the Nervous System
What is a Neuron?
Organ that produces Insulin
What is the pancreas?
A disease that is caused by environmental, lifestyle or genetic factors
What is a non-infectious disease?
General names for cells in the immune system
What is White Blood Cells?
A bodies response to increased temperature in he environment
What is Sweating? (Also Vasodilation/flushing)
The study of medicines and drugs
What is Pharmacology?
Organ that absorbs water from the stool
What is Large Instestine?
An automatic response in response to specific stimulus
What is a Reflex Arc
Hormone produced by the Testes
What is Testosterone?
Type of diabetes where the body's immune system attacks the pancreas' insulin producing cells
What is type 1 diabetes?
Type of cell that fights invaders by engulfing them (Eating)
What is a Phagocyte?
A bodies response to drinking a lot of water
What is Urinating? (Also what is increased urine production)
The main elements in the inner core
What is Iron and Nickel?
Organ that exchanges Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen
What is the Lungs?
Chemicals that a sent between neurons to send signals
What are Neurotransmitters
Hormone that is released when surprised/shocked and your life may be in danger
What is Adrenaline
Name for bacteria or viruses that cause disease
What is a Pathogen?
A weakened form of a virus or bacteria that is given to people
What is a Vaccine?
A type of loop where the body attempts to minimise the effect of the stimulus
What is a Negative Feedback Loop
The combination of all Biotic and Abiotic factors in an environment
What is an Ecosystem?
Connects a Bone to Muscle
What is a Tendon?
The gap between two nerve cells used for transmitting a signal.
What is a Synapse?
General category of organs that make up the Endocrine System
What is a Gland?
Disease that was originally believe to be spread in air but John Snow demonstrated it was spread by contaminated water
What is Cholera?
Produced by the body days after an infection starts in response to not being able to remove it with the first 2 lines of defence
What is Antibodies?
An example of a positive feedback loop found in humans
What is Oxytocin release causing contractions during childbirth?
The measure of salt in a body of water
What is Salinity?