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Infectious Disease
Cardiovascular System
Nervous System
Respiratory System
Muscular and skeletal system
100
What are the four major groups of human pathogens.
What are bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protists.
100
What are two diseases of the cardiovascular system.
What are atherosclerosis and hypertension.
100

A specialized cell transmitting nerve impulses; a nerve cell.

What is a neuron.

100
As air travels from the outside environment to the lungs, what does it travel through?
What are the nose, pharynx, trachea, and bronchi. 
100
Joints allow ______ to move in different ways.
What are bones.
200
When you have a cough and sore through, this round shaped virus may be to blame
What is adenovirus.
200
To help maintain cardiovascular health, people should exercise regularly, eat a balanced diet, and avoid _________.
What is smoking.
200

A signal transmitted along a nerve fiber. It consists of a wave of electrical depolarization that reverses the potential difference across the nerve cell membranes.

What is a nerve impulse.
200

Any of the major air passages of the lungs that diverge from the windpipe.

What is bronchi.
200
Your skeleton provides shape and _______, enables you to move, protects your organs, produces blood cells, and stores minerals and other materials until your body needs them.
What is support.
300

True or false?  If an animal that is infected with certain pathogens bites a person, it can pass the pathogens to the person.

True
300

A disease of the arteries characterized by the deposition of plaques of fatty material on their inner walls.

What is atherosclerosis.
300
Your nervous system helps maintain _______.
What is homeostasis.
300

Each of the pair of organs situated within the rib cage, consisting of elastic sacs with branching passages into which air is drawn, so that oxygen can pass into the blood and carbon dioxide be removed.

What are lungs.
300
A balanced diet and regular exercise are important for a lifetime of ________  ________.
What are healthy bones.
400

A bacterium, virus, or other microorganism that can cause disease.

What is a pathogen.
400

A sudden and sometimes fatal occurrence of coronary thrombosis, typically resulting in the death of part of a heart muscle.

What is a heart attack.
400

What are three kinds of neurons found in the body.

What are sensory neurons, interneurons, and motor neurons.

400
The respiratory system moves oxygen from the outside environment into the body.  It also removes ___________ and water from the body.
What is crib dioxide. 
400

Each of the series of small bones forming the backbone, having several projections for articulation and muscle attachment, and a hole through which the spinal cord passes.


What is a vertebrae.
500

A rod shaped bacterium causes ________, a disease that harms the nervous system.

What is tetanus.

500

Abnormally high blood pressure.

What is hypertension.
500

For a nerve impulse to be carried along at a synapse, it must cross the gap between a or an ______ and the next structure.

What is an axon.

500
When you breathe, the actions of your rib muscles and diaphragm expand or _______ your chest, causing air to flow in or out.
What is contract.
500

A soft fatty substance in the cavities of bones, in which blood cells are produced.

What is marrow.