General Biology
Science is a collection of these things about the world.
What are observations?
This is a big word for the covering system (skin, hair, nails) on your body.
What is the integumentary system?
You control this type of muscle consciously.
What is a voluntary muscle?
This organ produces bile and breaks down fats in digestion.
Can you name the difference between arteries and veins?
Arteries carry blood away from the heart, veins carry blood to the heart. Artery = Away
This means that a thing is living.
What is biotic?
This body tissue attaches muscle to bone.
What is a tendon?
You control this type of muscle without thinking.
What is an involuntary muscle?
This organ produces digestive enzymes to help break down proteins, fats, and carbs.
What is the pancreas?
Can you explain what happens to blood in the lungs?
A gas exchange takes place. De-oxygenated blood arrives to drop off carbon dioxide and pick up oxygen.
This means that a thing is not living.
What is abiotic?
The body extremity where the tibia, fibula, and femur are located.
What is the leg?
The under layer and the outermost layer of the skin is called?
What is the dermis and the epidermis?
Tiny, finger-like projections in the small intestine that help help absorb nutrients.
What is the villi?
How many chambers does the heart have? What are they called?
4 total chambers, 2 atria and 2 ventricles.
All living things share these characteristics.
• need for food
• need for air
• they reproduce
A body tissue that connects bone to bone.
What is a ligament?
Smooth, flexible tissue that cushions your joints and prevents bones from rubbing.
What is cartilage?
This is a powerful chemical in the stomach that breaks down food.
What is stomach acid?
What is the diaphragm?
Give an example of an abiotic material. Give an example of a biotic thing.
Answers vary.
Bone marrow produces both types of these blood cells.
What are red and white blood cells?
List the major organs in the digestive tract in order of how food travels through them.
Mouth → esophagus → stomach → small intestine → large intestine
This body part reabsorbs water from waste material before it is eliminated from the body.
What is the large intestine?
These are the tiny air sacs in the lungs.
What are the alveoli?