Final Exam

Question 1

The four different types of tissue

Answer 1

Connective, Epithelial, Muscle, and Nervous

Question 2

What do platelets do?

Answer 2

They form clots to prevent bleeding

Question 3

What do red cells transport?

Answer 3

They transfer oxygen throughout the body

Question 4

What is a ligament?

Answer 4

A connection of bone to bone

Question 5

What is a tendon?

Answer 5

A connection of muscle to bone

Question 6

How many different organ systems are there?

Answer 6

11 organ systems (Integumentary , Skeletal, Muscular, Nervous, Endocrine, Cardiovascular, Lymphatic, Respiratory, Digestive, Urinary, and Reproductive)

Question 7

What is the purpose of the Integumentary system?

Answer 7

Protect your body from bacteria, infection, and sunlight

Question 8

What does the Reproductive system produce?

Answer 8

They produce eggs in the ovaries and sperm in the testes. They also make sex hormones

Question 9

What cells make up your nervous tissue?

Answer 9

Neurons

Question 10

What is a joint?

Answer 10

The place in which two or more bone meet

Question 11

What is adipose tissue?

Answer 11

Body fat

Question 12

Purpose of the Nervous system?

Answer 12

To send messages from various parts of your body to your brain

Question 13

Purpose of the lymphatic system?

Answer 13

To transport fluids back to blood and act as the bodies defense and resistance to disease.

Question 14

What do white blood cells do?

Answer 14

Fight against diseases

Question 15

What is dwarfism?

Answer 15

A disease caused by having a lack of growth hormone, causing the person to be abnormally small.

Question 16

What is Gigantism?

Answer 16

A disease cause by overexertion of growth hormone, causing the person to be abnormally tall.

Question 17

What is Prolactin?

Answer 17

A hormone that’s responsible for lactation, certain breast tissue development and milk production.

Question 18

What is Graves’ Disease?

Answer 18

Graves’ disease is an immune system disorder that results in the overproduction of thyroid hormones

Question 19

What are gonads?

Answer 19

Glands that produce hormones that are involved in reproduction such as testes and ovaries.

Question 20

What are gametes?

Answer 20

A reproductive cell of an animal such as egg or sperm.

Question 21

What is hyperglycemia?

Answer 21

This happens when there’s too much sugar (glucose) in your blood.

Question 22

What is Rickets?

Answer 22

Rickets is the softening and weakening of bones in children, usually because of an extreme and prolonged vitamin D deficiency.

Question 23

How many pituitary lobes are there?

Answer 23

Two (Posterior and Anterior)

Question 24

What is needed to synthesize thyroid hormone?

Answer 24

Iodine is required along with T hormones

Question 25

What is the hypothalamus?

Answer 25

Keep your body in a stable state called homeostasis.

Question 26

What does oxytocin do?

Answer 26

Increasing contractions to induce labour and birth, and the release of milk from the breast after birth.

Question 27

What does calcitonin do?

Answer 27

Regulates levels of calcium in the blood

Question 28

What hormone raises blood sugar levels?

Answer 28

Glucagon

Question 29

What is Hashimitos Disease?

Answer 29

The immune system creates antibodies that attack thyroid cells as if they were bacteria

Question 30

What are the organs that filter blood?

Answer 30

The kidneys

Question 31

What is the bladder?

Answer 31

The storage and expender of waste such as urine.

Question 32

What type of muscle is found in the urinary tract?

Answer 32

Smooth muscle

Question 33

What gland regulates your metabolism?

Answer 33

The thyroid gland

Question 34

Largest bone in your body?

Answer 34

Femur

Question 35

Alternative name for your collar bones?

Answer 35

Clavicle

Question 36

Alternative name for your shoulder blades?

Answer 36

Scapulas

Question 37

Alternative name for your knee bone?

Answer 37

Patella

Question 38

What is a hydrostatic skeleton?

Answer 38

A skeleton that is made up mostly of water.

Question 39

How many pairs of ribs do you have?

Answer 39

12

Question 40

What is the mandible?

Answer 40

Jaw

Question 41

4 stages to process food

Answer 41

Ingestion, digestion, absorption, and elimination.

Question 42

Waste product of the digestive system?

Answer 42

Undigested parts of food, fluid, and older cells from the lining of your GI tract. In other words, urine and feces.

Question 43

What is peristalsis?

Answer 43

The involuntary contraction and relaxation of longitudinal and circular muscles throughout the digestive tract.

Question 44

What is Chyme?

Answer 44

The semifluid mass of partly digested food expelled by the stomach into the duodenum.

Question 45

What is mucosa?

Answer 45

The soft tissue that lines the body's canals and organs in the digestive, respiratory and reproductive systems.

Question 46

Alternative name for the digestive tract?

Answer 46

Alimentary tract

Question 47

2 types of digestion?

Answer 47

Mechanical digestion and chemical digestion.

Question 48

3 purposes of the stomach?

Answer 48

Temporarily store food. Contract and relax to mix and break down food. Produce enzymes and other specialized cells to digest food

Question 49

What happens in the large intestines?

Answer 49

Absorbing water and electrolytes, producing and absorbing vitamins, and forming and propelling feces toward the rectum for elimination.

Question 50

What is an omnivore?

Answer 50

An animal that eat plant and animals