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Bonus X 2
100
The body's largest vein.
What is the venae cavae?
100
The largest bone in the leg and the longest bone in the body.
What is the femur?
100
Intense activities lasting only short periods of time.
What is anaerobic?
100
The largest organ of the body.
What is the skin?
100
The flow of blood from the heart to the lungs and back to the heart.
What is pulmonary circulation?
200
The body's largest artery.
What is the aorta?
200
The enlargement of muscles through use.
What is hypertrophy?
200
The ability of a muscle to extend easily through its full range of motion.
What is flexibility?
200
The skin's outer layer which contains very few pain receptors and no blood vessels.
What is the epidermis?
200
The type of joint of joint that allows the widest range of motion.
What is the ball-and-socket- joint?
300
The two thin-walled upper chambers of the heart.
What are the atria?
300
The movement that describes most joints of the body.
What is freely movable?
300
Exercises that involve exerting a more or less constant force against a movable resistance.
What is isotonic exercises?
300
These help regulate body temperature.
What are the sweat glands?
300
The movement of blood through all parts of the body except the lungs.
What is systemic circulation?
400
The study of the heart and its function.
What is cardiology?
400
The two largest and strongest muscles in the body.
What are the quadriceps?
400
To be most beneficial to your body, aerobic exercises need three components.
What is frequency, intensity, and duration?
400
The fatty layer of loose connective tissue that attaches the skin to muscle and bone.
What is the hypodermis?
400
The condition in which a stable internal environment is maintained by the body.
What is homeostasis?
500
The amount of force that blood exerts on the walls of the blood vessels.
What is stroke volume?
500
The strong bands of connective tissue that join bones together.
What are ligaments?
500
Exercises that involve little or no outward movement of the body parts.
What is isometric exercises?
500
Nerve endings in the dermis that serve as a means of communication between your body and the outside world.
What are sensory receptors?
500
The study of the structure, functions, disorders, and diseases of the respiratory system.
What is pneumology?