Chapter 1

Question 1

What does Macro mean?

Answer 1

Something you can see with your own eyes

Question 2

What does micro mean?

Answer 2

Something that you can only see under a microscope

Question 3

What does the integumentary system do? (Skin,hair,nails)

Answer 3

Protects internal organs
Site of sensory receptors

Question 4

What does the skeletal system do?

Answer 4

Supports the body
Allows movements

Question 5

What does the muscular system do?

Answer 5

Enables movement
Helps maintain body temperature

Question 6

What does the nervous system do?

Answer 6

Detects and processes sensory information
Activates body responses

Question 7

What does the endocrine system do?

Answer 7

Secretes hormones
Regulates body processes

Question 8

What does the cardiovascular system do?

Answer 8

Delivers oxygen and nutrients to tissues
Equalizes body temperature

Question 9

What do veins do?

Answer 9

Bring oxygen to the heart

Question 10

What do arteries do?

Answer 10

Bring blood away from the heart

Question 11

What does the lymphatic system do?

Answer 11

Returns excess water to blood
Helps defend against pathogens

Question 12

What does the respiratory system do?

Answer 12

Gets rid of carbon dioxide
Delivers oxygen to blood

Question 13

What does the digestive system do?

Answer 13

Processed food for use by the body
Removes waste

Question 14

What does the urinary system do?

Answer 14

Controls water level in your body
Removes waste

Question 15

What does metabolism mean?

Answer 15

How quickly you build things up and break them down

Question 16

What does catabolism mean?

Answer 16

The breakdown, breaks bonds to release energy (makes molecules smaller)

Question 17

What does anabolism mean?

Answer 17

Making bonds, store energy by building bonds ( makes molecules bigger)

Question 18

What does negative feed back mean?

Answer 18

When something happens your body will do the opposite to balance it out (like when u cut yourself the cut will close)

Question 19

What does positive feedback mean?

Answer 19

The more something happens, the more the body with allow it (when giving birth the uterus opens more instead of closing)

Question 20

What does proximal mean?

Answer 20

Closer to the trunk of the limb ( on the arm the “trunk” would be the shoulder)

Question 21

What does distal mean?

Answer 21

Farther from the point of attachment or trunk of the body ( phalanges are distal to the femur)

Question 22

What does anterior (ventral) mean?

Answer 22

Front of the body

Question 23

What does posterior (dorsal) mean?

Answer 23

Toward the back of the body

Question 24

What does the superior (cranial) mean?

Answer 24

Position above another part of the body (the cranium is superior the thorax)

Question 25

What does inferior (caudal) mean?

Answer 25

Position below another part of the body( the phalanges are inferior to the pubis)

Question 26

What does lateral mean?

Answer 26

The side or direction toward the side of the body( the carpus is lateral compared to the umblicus)

Question 27

What does medial mean?

Answer 27

The middle of the body ( the umblicus is medial compared to phalanges)

Question 28

What does the transverse plane make?

Answer 28

Superior vs inferior

Question 29

What does the Mid Sagittal plane make?

Answer 29

Left vs right

Question 30

What does coronal plane make

Answer 30

Ventral vs dorsal

Question 31

What cavities are part of the doral body cavities?

Answer 31

Cranial (brain) and vertebral (spinal cord)

Question 32

What cavities are part of the ventral body cavity?

Answer 32

Thoracic (heart & lungs), abdominal (stomach, liver, kidney, spleen), Pelvic(reproductive system,bladder,rectum)

Question 33

What is pleura?

Answer 33

Serous membrane that surrounds the lungs

Question 34

What is pericardium?

Answer 34

The serous membrane that surrounds the heart

Question 35

What is peritoneum?

Answer 35

The serous membrane that surrounds several organs in the abdominoplevic cavity