QUIZ 1

Question 1

Coronal Plane

Answer 1

divides the body into anterior and posterior portions

Question 2

Transverse Plane

Answer 2

divides the body into superior and inferior portions

Question 3

Mid-Sagittal

Answer 3

divides the body into equal left and right portions

Question 4

Sagittal Plane

Answer 4

divides the body into left and right portions

Question 5

Distal

Answer 5

Away

Question 6

Proximal

Answer 6

Close

Question 7

Caudal

Answer 7

Towards the tail

Question 8

Cranial

Answer 8

Toward the head

Question 9

Rostral

Answer 9

toward the nose

Question 10

Ventral

Answer 10

Toward the belly

Question 11

Dorsal

Answer 11

toward the spine

Question 12

What are positive feedback mechanisms?

Answer 12

increases actions in the body (short-lived): ex: blood clotting, milk let down, childbirth

Question 13

What are negative feedback mechanisms?

Answer 13

prevents sudden or severe changes in the body; ex: body temp, blood pressure, glucose regulation

Question 14

Homeostasis

Answer 14

trying to maintain a stable internal environment

Question 15

How long can you survive without food?

Answer 15

3 Weeks

Question 16

How long can you survive without water?

Answer 16

3 days

Question 17

How long can you survive without oxygen?

Answer 17

3 minutes

Question 18

What is hydrostatic pressure?

Answer 18

controls blood flow

Question 19

What is atmospheric pressure?

Answer 19

needed for breathing

Question 20

What is pressure?

Answer 20

force on an object (gravity)

Question 21

What is heat?

Answer 21

byproduct of metabolism; controls the rate of metabolic reactions

Question 22

What is oxygen?

Answer 22

1/5 air; releases energy from nutrients

Question 23

Why is food important?

Answer 23

supplies energy and provides necessary nutrients and raw materials

Question 24

What is water?

Answer 24

most abundant substance in the body required for metabolism, transport, and regulating body temperature

Question 25

What five factors does life depend on most?

Answer 25

Water, Food, Oxygen, Heat, and Pressure

Question 26

What is excretion?

Answer 26

removal of waste produced by metabolic reactions

Question 27

What is assimilation?

Answer 27

changing of absorbed substances into chemically different forms

Question 28

What is circulation?

Answer 28

movement of substances in body fluids

Question 29

What is absorption?

Answer 29

Passage of substances through membranes and into bodily fluids

Question 30

What is digestion?

Answer 30

breakdown of food substances into simpler forms

Question 31

What is respiration?

Answer 31

obtaining oxygen; removing carbon dioxide; releasing energy from food

Question 32

What is reproduction?

Answer 32

production of new organisms and new cells

Question 33

What is growth?

Answer 33

increase in body size; no change in shape

Question 34

What is responsiveness?

Answer 34

reaction to a change

Question 35

What is movement?

Answer 35

change in position; motion

Question 36

How do we characterize something as living?

Answer 36

It has movement, responsiveness, growth, reproduction, respiration, digestion, absorption, circulation, assimilation, and excretion

Question 37

What is physiology?

Answer 37

The study of the function of the body

Question 38

What is anatomy?

Answer 38

The study of the structure of the body