Animal and Plant systems.

Question 1

List the levels of organization in animals from smallest to largest.

Answer 1

Cells, tissue, Organs, Organ systems, Organism.

Question 2

What does the muscular system do?

Answer 2

Aids in movement and helps move substances through the body.

Question 3

What does the skeletal system do?

Answer 3

Protects, supports, and moves the body.

Question 4

What does the Nervous system do?

Answer 4

Transmits signals to different parts of the body.

Question 5

What does the Endocrine system do?

Answer 5

Produces hormones.

Question 6

What does the Respiratory system do?

Answer 6

Exchanges oxygen and carbon dioxide.

Question 7

What does the circulatory system do?

Answer 7

Moves blood, oxygen, and nutrients throughout the body.

Question 8

What does the reproductive system do?

Answer 8

Produces gametes that combine during sexual reproduction to make offspring.

Question 9

What does the digestive system do?

Answer 9

Breaks down food into usable energy for the body to use.

Question 10

What does the Excretory system do?

Answer 10

Eliminates waste from the body.

Question 11

What does the Immune system do?

Answer 11

Fights off infections and pathogens.

Question 12

What does the integumentary system do?

Answer 12

Maintains homeostasis and form a protective covering.

Question 13

Which systems are involved in nutrient absorption?

Answer 13

Digestive, circulatory, and excretory systems.

Question 14

What is peristalsis?

Answer 14

The contracting and relaxing of muscles.

Question 15

How do villi and micro villi help with nutrient absorption?

Answer 15

They increase surface area.

Question 16

Which system gets rid of liquid waste?

Answer 16

Excretory system.

Question 17

What is homeostasis?

Answer 17

The process of maintaining a stable internal environment.

Question 18

What is positive feedback?

Answer 18

output in one causes increase in the other.

Ex: Blood Clotting, and child birth.

Question 19

What is negative feedback?

Answer 19

Output reduced the effect of a stimulus. (returning conditions back to the ideal range.)
Ex: Temperature, and Blood sugar.

Question 20

What systems are involved in regulating body temperatures?

Answer 20

Nervous, Circulatory, Integumentary, and muscular.

Question 21

What systems are involved in regulating blood glucose?

Answer 21

Nervous, Endocrine, Circulatory, and Digestive.

Question 22

Which body system monitors the body?

Answer 22

Nervous system.

Question 23

Which body system makes and sends hormones?

Answer 23

Endocrine system.

Question 24

Which system circulates material through the body?

Answer 24

Circulatory system.

Question 25

Which systems protect you from injury?

Answer 25

Integumentary, Nervous, Endocrine, Circulatory, and more.

Question 26

Give an example of the body protecting itself from injury. Include the systems involved.

Answer 26

Nervous system tells your body to react to the pain. Muscular system moves your hand away from the thing causing you pain. Integumentary protects your organs.

Question 27

Which systems prevent and fight infections?

Answer 27

Immune, integumentary, and circulatory systems.

Question 28

How does your body respond to every pathogen?

Answer 28

You get fevers, inflamation, and/or barriers.

Question 29

What happens to B and T cells after they are used to fight the infection?

Answer 29

They are stored as memory cells so that they can respond if the same pathogen tries to infect the organism again.

Question 30

What are the functions of the male reproductive system?

Answer 30

To produce sperm, and deliver sperm to the female reproductive system.

Question 31

What are the functions of the female reproductive system?

Answer 31

Produce egg cells, and provide a place for the zygote to develop.

Question 32

What is fertilization?

Answer 32

The meaning of a sperm cell and an egg.

Question 33

What systems are involved in reproduction?

Answer 33

Reproductive, Endocrine, Circulatory, and Muscular system.

Question 34

What is the function of leaves?

Answer 34

they carry out photosynthesis, and gas exchange.

Question 35

What is the stems function?

Answer 35

Transports water, minerals, hormones, and photosynthetic products throughout the earth.

Question 36

What is the Roots function?

Answer 36

Absorb water and minerals from soil.

Question 37

What is the function of chloroplasts?

Answer 37

Absorbs sunlight.

Question 38

How do guard cells regulate the size of the stomata?

Answer 38

They make the stomata swell to open and shrivel to close.

Question 39

What does the xylem transport?

Answer 39

Water and minerals.

Question 40

What does the phloem transport?

Answer 40

Food and hormones.

Question 41

How do roots and shoots work together to absorb nutrients?

Answer 41

Roots absorb nutrients from the soil, and the stem (Shoot system) transports the nutrients to the rest of the plant.

Question 42

How do roots and shoot work together to maintain homeostasis?

Answer 42

By using transpiration.

Question 43

Define Tropism.

Answer 43

A plants responce to a stimulus.

Question 44

Define Phototropism.

Answer 44

A plants response to light.

Question 45

Define Geotropism.

Answer 45

A plants response to gravity.

Question 46

Define Thigmotropism.

Answer 46

A plants response to touch.

Question 47

Define Hydrotropism.

Answer 47

A plants response to water.

Question 48

What is auxin, and how does it affect the plant?

Answer 48

a plant hormone that Causes the plant to elongate towards light.

Question 49

How do plants reproduce asexually?

Answer 49

Vegetative Propagation.

Question 50

Which parts of the flower are male?

Answer 50

Anther, and filament.

Question 51

Which parts of the flower are female?

Answer 51

Stigma, style, and Ovary.

Question 52

What are the male and female gametes?

Answer 52

Male: Pollen Female: Ovule

Question 53

What is pollination?

Answer 53

The transfer of pollen from the anther of a flower to the stigma.

Question 54

What is fertilization?

Answer 54

The union of pollen to ovule to form a zygote.

Question 55

What is germination?

Answer 55

Process by which a plant grows from a seed.