Chapters 6-9

Question 0

What does the thoracic cavity contain?

Answer 0

The heart, lungs and esophagus.

Question 1

What are the four body cavities?

Answer 1

Cranial, spinal, thoracic, and abdominal.

Question 2

What does the abdominal cavity contain?

Answer 2

The liver, stomach, pancreas, spleen, kidneys, bladder, small and large intestine, and reproductive organs.

Question 3

What’s another name for reproductive organs?

Answer 3

Gonads

Question 4

What is the heart/lungs/intestines also called?

Answer 4

Visceral organs

Question 5

What is a system?

Answer 5

A group of structures which function together as a unit to preform a job for the body

Question 6

In order name the divisions of systems

Answer 6

Systems, organs, tissues, cells

Question 7

What are the organs of the circulatory system?

Answer 7

Heart, arteries,veins, capillaries

Question 8

Which of these…the arteries or veins, carry the blood away from the heart?

Answer 8

The arteries carry blood away, the veins carry blood too the heart.

Question 9

What is the body’s ‘defense system’ against bacteria and sickness?

Answer 9

The immune system

Question 10

Where are white blood cells produced abs where do they mature?

Answer 10

Bone marrow and they mature in bone marrow and thymus gland

Question 11

What system provides the body tissues with oxygen and to remove carbon dioxide?

Answer 11

Respiratory system.

Question 12

What is the passage that air takes when it’s breathed in?

Answer 12

Nose, nasal passages, pharynx, larynx, trachea, bronchial tubes, and lungs

Question 13

What is alveoli?

Answer 13

The thin walked air sacs at the end of the bronchial tubes in the lungs

Question 14

What system makes a path through the thoracic abs abdominal system and the small intestine.

Answer 14

Digestive system

Question 15

What is the alimentary canal?

Answer 15

A 20 ft long tube leading from the mouth till the ‘waste bucket’

Question 16

What is the large intestine also known as?

Answer 16

The colon

Question 17

What system provides a number if openings the through which waste materials are gotten rid of

Answer 17

The excretory system

Question 18

What is the tube which connects the bladder to the outside of the body?

Answer 18

The urethra

Question 19

What system coordinates the activities of the body?

Answer 19

The nervous system

Question 20

What is the most important organ of the nervous system

Answer 20

The brain

Question 21

What are ‘chemical messengers’?

Answer 21

Hormones

Question 22

What is the system called that produces hormones?

Answer 22

The endocrine system

Question 23

What is the system that contains the largest organ?

Answer 23

Integumentary system

Question 24

How many bones approx. are there in our body?

Answer 24

206

Question 25

What is the system that contains our bones abs ligaments called?

Answer 25

Skeletal system

Question 26

What is he system that is responsible for the moving of the body...with voluntary abs involuntary muscles?

Answer 26

The muscular system

Question 27

What system is in charge of the continuation of the human race?

Answer 27

The reproductive system

Question 28

What is it called when a sperm unites with a egg?

Answer 28

Fertilization

Question 29

The development of the child takes place where

Answer 29

Uterus

Question 30

What are organs composed of?

Answer 30

Tissues

Question 31

What is interstitial fluid ?

Answer 31

The fluid surrounding and between the tissues

Question 32

The body had which four basic membranes?

Answer 32

Serous membrane, mucous membrane, cutaneous membrane, synovial membrane

Question 33

What does serous membrane serve for?

Answer 33

For lining of enclosed body cavities

Question 34

What does the mucous membrane serve for?

Answer 34

To line the throat, mouth and nose .

Question 35

Our skin is also called ???? Membrane?

Answer 35

Cutaneous

Question 36

What does synovial membrane serve as?

Answer 36

To line the joint cavities.

Question 37

What is matrix?

Answer 37

The material surrounding the cells

Question 39

What is the 30-40 week period of development in a child called?

Answer 39

Gestation

Question 40

What is the membrane that protects the unborn child during gestation?

Answer 40

The amniotic sac filled with amniotic fluid

Question 41

All the materials that an unborn child needs reached him through what?

Answer 41

The umbilical cord

Question 42

What is the placenta?

Answer 42

A sac of blood vessels

Question 43

What are some methods of abortion?

Answer 43

Dilation and curettage and salt poisoning

Question 44

What are tissues made of?

Answer 44

Individual cells and matrix

Question 45

The framework of the human body is called?

Answer 45

The skeletal system

Question 46

What two divisions is the skeletal system divided into?

Answer 46

Axial and appendicular

Question 47

Which of the two skeletal divisions is the backbone a part of?

Answer 47

Axial system

Question 48

What two parts can your skull be divided?

Answer 48

Cranium and facial bones

Question 49

What is the cranium also called?

Answer 49

Brain case

Question 50

The cranium is made up of what major bones?

Answer 50

Frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital

Question 51

The bones responsible for infants soft spot are called what?

Answer 51

Fontanels

Question 52

What are sutures?

Answer 52

Uneven lines that cranial bones are attached at

Question 53

What is the framework of the face and jaw called?

Answer 53

Facial skeleton

Question 54

What are the two most important facial bones?

Answer 54

Maxillary bones

Question 55

Where are maxillary bones and palatine bones located?

Answer 55

The roof of the mouth, or the palate

Question 56

What is the mandible?

Answer 56

The bone that forms the lower jaw

Question 57

What is exceptional about the mandible?

Answer 57

It's the only movable bone of the skull

Question 58

What are ligaments?

Answer 58

Tissues that join bones to other bones

Question 59

Bone skills with hollow spaces are called what?

Answer 59

Sinuses

Question 60

What are the smallest bones I the bodies?

Answer 60

The three middle ear bones ..malleus, incus, and stapes

Question 61

The chief structural member of the body is called what?

Answer 61

The back bone