Systems of the Body

Question 1

What delivers nutrients, oxygen, white blood cells and hormones?

Answer 1

Cardiovascular System

Question 2

What goes to the heart?

Answer 2

veins

Question 3

What goes away from the heart?

Answer 3

arteries

Question 4

What carries and delivers oxygen to the tissues?

Answer 4

red blood cells and hemoglobin

Question 5

What must be present for this in the cardiovascular system?

Answer 5

iron

Question 6

What is being carried in the blood?

Answer 6

pathogen and white blood cells

Question 7

What function is to provide oxygen to the blood and remove carbon dioxide from the body?

Answer 7

Respiratory System

Question 8

What is the exchange of gases that takes place in the lungs (Alveoli)?

Answer 8

external respiration

Question 9

What is the main muscle used in breathing?

Answer 9

diaphragm

Question 10

What is another word for windpipe?

Answer 10

trachea

Question 11

What is the flap that makes sure things do not go down the wrong pipe?

Answer 11

epiglottis

Question 12

What is when alveoli are permanently damaged and damage spreads. Almost always caused by smoking.

Answer 12

Emphysema

Question 13

How much of energy is used just to breathe?

Answer 13

80%

Question 14

Where is 90% of absorption that takes place?

Answer 14

small intestine

Question 15

What function is to break down foods so they can be absorbed as nourishment or eliminated as waste?

Answer 15

Digestive system

Question 16

What is another word for chewing?

Answer 16

mastication

Question 17

What is creamy fluid like mixture that food is in as it enters small intestine?

Answer 17

chyme

Question 18

What function is to eliminate waste from body?

Answer 18

Excretory system

Question 19

What helps to eliminate gaseous waste (carbon dioxide)?

Answer 19

respiratory system

Question 20

What are tubes that connect kidneys to bladder?

Answer 20

Ureters

Question 21

What is a hollow organ that holds urine?

Answer 21

bladder

Question 22

What is a tube that takes the urine out of the body?

Answer 22

urethra

Question 23

what is inflammation of the urethra?

Answer 23

urethraitis

Question 24

What regulates body functions and produces hormones?

Answer 24

Endocrine system

Question 25

What secretes hormones directly into the bloodstream?

Answer 25

endocrine glands

Question 26

What is the chemical messenger?

Answer 26

hormones

Question 27

What Endocrine system gland produces sperm?

Answer 27

testes

Question 28

What Endocrine system gland produces eggs (ova)?

Answer 28

ovaries

Question 29

What Endocrine System gland regulates and controls all other glands?

Answer 29

Pituitary gland

Question 30

What is known as the master gland?

Answer 30

pituitary gland

Question 31

When the sperm makes it to the egg, what will occur?

Answer 31

Fertilization

Question 32

Where will fertilization occur?

Answer 32

fallopian tubes

Question 33

When do most females begin first menstrual cycle?

Answer 33

10-15

Question 34

When will females menstrual cycle stop?

Answer 34

45-55

Question 35

Where will the sperm enter through?

Answer 35

vagina

Question 36

What is the passageway extending from uterus to the outside of the body?

Answer 36

vagina

Question 37

What is a zygote?

Answer 37

fertilized egg

Question 38

What will enter the uterus where it will develop?

Answer 38

fertilized egg

Question 39

What will check for cancerous cells on the cervix?

Answer 39

Pap smears

Question 40

What is a male sex hormone, initiates physical changes like muscle development, facial and body hair and deepening of the voice?

Answer 40

testosterone

Question 41

What produces and secretes testosterone and produces sperm?

Answer 41

testes/testicles

Question 42

What should we practice to prevent STD's?

Answer 42

abstinence

Question 43

When does testicular cancer most often occur?

Answer 43

14-40

Question 44

What network allows communication between the brain and different parts of the body?

Answer 44

Nervous system

Question 45

What is the brain, spinal cord and nerves?

Answer 45

Nervous system

Question 46

What is the central nervous system?

Answer 46

brain and spinal cord

Question 47

What is the peripheral nervous system?

Answer 47

nerves

Question 48

What depends on oxygen to survive?

Answer 48

brain

Question 49

How long can a brain last before lasting damage?

Answer 49

4-5 minutes

Question 50

When is the brain fully formed?

Answer 50

Mid 20s

Question 51

What is overstretched/torn?

Answer 51

strains

Question 52

What does RICE stand for?

Answer 52

Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation

Question 53

In exercise, unused muscles will what?

Answer 53

atrophy

Question 54

What is a high protein diet?

Answer 54

meat, dairy, eggs, and fish

Question 55

strong, flexible connective tissue

Answer 55

cartilage

Question 56

connective tissue that connects bone to bone

Answer 56

ligament

Question 57

connective tissue that connects bone to muscle

Answer 57

tendon

Question 58

lateral curvature of the spine

Answer 58

scoliosis

Question 59

progressive loss of bone tissue

Answer 59

osteoporosis

Question 60

muscles that act on the lining of passageways (blood vessels, esophagus, trachea, bronchi, bladder, etc.)

Answer 60

smooth muscles

Question 61

muscles attached to bone that causes movement (striated)

Answer 61

skeletal muscle

Question 62

striated muscle that forms the wall of the heart

Answer 62

cardiac muscle

Question 63

nerve cells

Answer 63

neurons

Question 64

What houses the red bone marrow which produces blood cells?

Answer 64

spongey bone

Question 65

striated, voluntary

Answer 65

skeletal

Question 66

involuntary, striated

Answer 66

cardiac

Question 67

involuntary

Answer 67

smooth

Question 68

What group are digestive tracts, blood vessels and urinary bladder?

Answer 68

smooth

Question 69

What group are flexors and extensors?

Answer 69

skeletal

Question 70

What are flexors?

Answer 70

biceps

Question 71

What are extensors?

Answer 71

triceps

Question 72

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