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Collective Learning Activity for Body Systems Flashcards

1
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Which one of the following is NOT primary function of the skin?
a. Sensation
b. Protection
c. Secretion
d. Reproduction

A

d. Reproduction

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The _____ layer of the skin is considered to be the ‘true’ skin.
Select one:
a. Subcutaneous
b. Dermis
c. Muscle
d. Epidermis

A

b. Dermis

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There are three kinds of fibers that intermingle with the cells of the dermis. They include all of the following except _____.
Select one:
a. Elastin
b. Reticulum
c. Collagen
d. Tactile

A

d. Tactile

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_____ glands are sweat glands.
Select one:
a. Sebaceous
b. Subdoriferous
c. Subcutaneous
d. Subterranean

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b.
Subdoriferous

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A(n) _____ is a blister containing a watery fluid.
Select one:
a.Bulla
b.Papule
c.Macule
d.Pustule

A

a. Bulla

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_____ makes up approximately 70 percent of the dry weight of the skin and gives it strength, form, and flexibility.
Select one:
a.Kertain
b.Reticulum
c.Elastin
d.Collagen

A

d. Collagen

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The _____ forms a protective layer over every part of the body and varies in thickness, being thickest in the palms of the hands and soles of the feet and thinnest on the inner sides of the limbs.
Select one:
a.Dermis
b.Collagen
c.Subcutaneous
d.Epidermis

A

d.
Epidermis

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The cells of the _____ layer of the epidermis are almost dead and undergo a change into cells of the more superficial layers.
Select one:
a. Stratum germinativum
b. Stratum spinosum
c. Stratum corneum
d. Stratum granulosum

A

d.
Stratum granulosum

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_____ refers to abnormal conditions of the skin resulting from contact with chemicals or other exterior agents.
Select one:
a. Psoriasis
b. Contact dermatitis
c. Eczema
d. Urticaria

A

b.
Contact dermatitis

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Sudoriferous glands are under the control of the _____ nervous sytem and are located in the dermis.
Select one:
a. Autonomic
b. Parasympathetic
c. Sympathetic
d. Visceral

A

a.
Autonomic

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Hair and nails are considered to be _____ of the skin.
Select one:
a. Appendages
b. Secretions
c. Waste products
d. Glands

A

a.
Appendages

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12
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Which bone protects the brain?
Select one:
a. Calcium
b. The cranium
c. The cerebrum
d. The cerebellum

A

b.

The cranium

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The purpose of the rib cage is to?
Select one:
a. protect the stomach
b. protect the spinal cord
c. protect the heart and lungs
d. provide an object to which the lungs can attach

A

c.

protect the heart and lungs

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14
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What makes bones so strong?
Select one:
a. Silca
b. Cartilage
c. Blood and marrow
d. Calcium and phosphorous

A

d.
Calcium and phosphorous

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What is the difference between cartilage and bone?
Select one:
a. Bone is rubbery, and cartilage is firm.
b. Cartilage is rubbery, and bone is firm.
c. Bone is more primitive tissue than cartilage.
d. What is the difference between cartilage and bone?

A

b. Cartilage is rubbery, and bone is firm.

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What is the difference between compact bone and spongy bone?
Select one:
a. They Have different bone marrow.
b. They are made of different materials.
c. They have different types of bone cells.
d. They have different sizes of bone cells.

A

c.
They have different types of bone cells.

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17
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Place where two or more bones meet.
Select one:
a. Joint
b. Marrow
c. Calcium
d. Tendon

A

a. Joint

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18
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Which of these is NOT a job of the skeletal system?
Select one:
a. Support and give shape to the body
b. Makes blood cells
c. Removes wastes from the body

A

c. Removes wastes from the body

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These joints are found in the knee and elbow.
Select one:
a. Pivot
b. Ball and socket
c. Hinge

A

c. Hinge

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These joints are found in the hip and shoulder.
Select one:
a. Pivot
b. Ball and socket
c. Hinge

A

b.
Ball and socket

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The part of the bone where blood cells are made.
Select one:
a. Marrow
b. Joint
c. Ligament

A

a. Marrow

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These connect bones to muscles.
Select one:
a. Marrow
b. Joint
c. Ligament

A

c. Ligament

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23
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The ribs, sternum and spine protect these.
Select one:
a. Kidneys, bladder, urethra
b. Heart, lungs, blood vessels
c. Small intestine, large intestine

A

b. Heart, lungs, blood vessels

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What do the ilium and spine protect?
Select one:
a. Digestive organs
b. Knee and elbow
c. Wrist and ankle

A

a. Digestive organs

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25
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There are around how many bones in the adult skeleton?
Select one:
a. 106
b. 206
c. 66

A

b. 206

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26
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What do bones store?
Select one:
a. Bile and insulin
b. Urine and feces
c. Calcium and iron

A

c. Calcium and iron

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27
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Space between muscle cell and nerve terminal is called?
Select one:
a. Tendons junction?
b. Neuromuscular junction
c. Cartilage junction
d. Ligament junction

A

b.
Neuromuscular junction

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Muscle used to control flow of all substances within lumen are classified as
Select one:
a. cardiac muscles
b. smooth muscles
c. hormonal system
d. skeletal system

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b. smooth muscles

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29
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Muscles that are found in heart to circulate blood are known as
Select one:
a. cardiac muscles
b. Skeletal system
c. hormonal system
d. smooth muscles

A

a. cardiac muscles

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30
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Electrical current from nervous system are conducted in body with help of?
Select one:
a. Nerves
b. Ligament
c. Cartilage
d. Tendons

A

a. Nerves

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Flexible and tough band of fibrous connective tissue that connects bone to muscles is known as?
Select one:
a. Nerves
b. Ligament
c. Cartilage
d. Tendon

A

d. Tendon

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32
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These muscles work to close a joint.
Select one:
a. Flexor
b. cardiac
c. extensor

A

a. Flexor

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33
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These voluntary muscles are striated.
Select one:
a. smooth
b. cardiac
c. skeletal

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c. skeletal

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34
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Muscles that extend or straighten a body part.
Select one:
a. tendon
b. flexor
c. extensor

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c. extensor

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35
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Which of these are job(s) of the muscular system?
Select one:
a. Strength
b. Movement
c. Making blood cells

A

a + b. Strength and movement

36
Q

These muscles are controlled by the autonomic muscle system and are involuntary.
Select one:
a. Tendon
b. Skeletal
c. Smooth

A

c. Smooth

37
Q

These are the heart muscles.
Select one:
a. Smooth
b. Skeletal
c. Cardiac

A

c. cardiac

38
Q

A band of tough, inelastic fibrous tissue that connects a muscle with its bony attachment.
Select one:
a. Tendon
b. Flexor
c. Extensor
d. Joint

A

a. Tendon

39
Q

The three major types of muscles in the body are:
Select one:
a. Smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and skeletal muscle
b. Smooth muscle, sports muscles, and skeletal muscles
c. Smooth muscle, flexible muscle, and strength muscle
d. Smooth muscle, running muscle, and face muscles

A

a.
Smooth muscle, cardiac muscle, and skeletal muscle

40
Q

The muscle that pumps blood throughout your body is:
Select one:
a. Smooth muscle
b. Valentine muscle
c. Skeletal muscle
d. Cardiac muscle

A

d. cardiac muscle

41
Q

Which muscle helps move your shoulders?
Select one:
a. Smooth muscle
b. Quadriceps
c. Deltoid muscle
d. Tendons

A

c.
Deltoid muscle

42
Q

Where does food pass through between the mouth and the stomach?
Select one:
a. The small intestine
b. The rectum
c. The gullet
d. The large intestine

A

c. the gullet

43
Q

Our throat divides into separate tubes separate tubes: the windpipe and the gullet. What prevents food from entering the windpipe?
Select one:
a. The uvula
b. The trachea
c. The epiglottis
d. The tongue

A

c. the epiglottis

44
Q

How does digested food finally reach the bloodstream?
Select one:
a. It is absorbed into the blood through the walls of the lungs.
b. It passes from the small intestine into the large intestine, then into the blood.
c. It is absorbed into the blood through blood vessels.
d. It passes through the gullet into the blood.

A

c. It is absorbed into the blood through blood vessels.

45
Q

The digestive system processes food into usable and usable materials. The usable materials are sent to the body’s cells as food. What happens to unusable materials?
Select one:
a. It goes to the right ventricle to await disposal
b. It goes into the large intestine to await disposal
c. It goes into the pancreas to await disposal.
d. It goes into the small intestine to await disposal.

A

b.
It goes into the large intestine to await disposal

46
Q

Which of the following does NOT manufacture digestive juices?
Select one:
a. Stomach
b. Pancreas
c. Kidneys
d. Liver

A

c.
Kidneys

47
Q

Stores the liver’s digestive juices until they are needed by the intestines.
Select one:
a. Pancreas
b. Villi
c. Gall bladder

A

c. gall bladder

48
Q

Composed of the teeth, tongue, salivary glands and muscles, this part takes in food to begin the process of digestion.
Select one:
a. Mouth
b. Anus
c. Esophagus

A

a. mouth

49
Q

The place where digested molecules of food, water, and minerals are absorbed.
Select one:
a. Small intestine
b. Large intesine
c. Mouth

A

A. small intestine

50
Q

This organ stores swallowed food and liquid, mixes up digestive juices with the food and liquid and sends it to the small intestine.
Select one:
a. Large intestine
b. Stomach
c. Small intestine

A

b. stomach

51
Q

This is the job of the digestive system.
Select one:
a. To take in and break down food for use by the body
b. To take in oxygen and give off carbon dioxide
c. To give the body shape

A

a. To take in and break down food for use by the body

52
Q

The opening at the end of the digestive tract in which solid wastes are eliminated.
Select one:
a. Liver
b. Mucosa
c. Anus

A

c. anus

53
Q

A long tube that carries food from the mouth to the stomach.
Select one:
a. Esophagus
b. Trachea
c. Urethra

A

a. Esophagus

54
Q

Tiny fingerlike projections in the small intestine.
Select one:
a. Villi
b. Anus
c. Rectum

A

a. villi

55
Q

An organ that produces a bodily juice called bile.
Select one:
a. Liver
b. Pancreas
c. Gallbladder

A

a. liver

56
Q

This part of the digestive system removes solid wastes such as feces from the body.
Select one:
a. Small intestine
b. Large intestine
c. Esophagus

A

b. large intestine

57
Q

The pericardium is the double sac membrane that:
Select one:
a. makes up the heart valves
b. Is found only in the capillaries
c. line the aorta
d. encloses the heart

A

d.
encloses the heart

58
Q

Most of the cardiac muscle of the heart is found in the:
Select one:
a. Myocardium
b. Endocardium
c. Pericardium
d. Epicardium

A

a. myocardium

59
Q

The inter-ventricular septum and the inter-atrial septum separate the:
Select one:
a. aorta and pulmonary artery
b. chambers of the lungs
c. bicuspid and tricuspid valves
d. chambers of the heart

A

d.
chambers of the heart

60
Q

Blood returning to the heart from the body organs enters the:
Select one:
a.

right ventricle by the pulmonary vein
b.

right atrium through the vena cava
Correct
c.

left ventricle by the pulmonary artery
d.

left atrium through the aorta

A

b.
right atrium through the vena cava

61
Q

The only vein in the body that transports oxygen-rich blood is the:
Select one:
a. coronary vein
b. hepatic portal vein
c. aortic vein
d. pulmonary vein

A

d.
pulmonary vein

62
Q

What part of the intrinsic conduction system starts the heart beat?
Select one:
a. The Perkinje fibers
b. The Bundle of His
c. The sinoatrial node
d. The atrioventricular node

A

c. The sinoatrial node

63
Q

A surgeon opens the thoracic cavity and finds a membrane covering the mediastinum. This membrane is called the?
Select one:
a. Parietal peritoneum
b. Visceral peritoneum
c. Parietal pericardium
d. Visceral pericardium

A

c.
Parietal pericardium

64
Q

The muscular layer of the heart that is responsible for pumping is the?
Select one:
a. Epicardium
b. Myocardium
c. Endocardium

A

b.
Myocardium

65
Q

This chamber of the heart is much thicker than the others because it pumps to the entire body
Select one:
a. Right atrium
b. Left atrium
c. Left ventricle
d. Right ventricle

A

c.
Left ventricle

66
Q

Why is the mitral valve different from the other three valves of the heart?
Select one:
a.It only has 1 flap
b.It only has 3 flaps
c.It only has 2 flaps

A

c. It only has 2 flaps

67
Q

The correct pathway that an erythrocyte would travel during systemic circulation is?
Select one:
a. Aorta–arteriole–capillary–venule—vein
b. Capillary–venule–vein–artery—aorta
c. Arteriole–aorta–vein–venule–capillary
d. Venule–vein–capillary–arteriole–aorta

A

a.
Aorta–arteriole–capillary–venule—vein

68
Q

The vessel layer that is fibrous and responsible for support is the?
Select one:
a. Tunica media
b. Tunica intima
c. Tunica externa

A

c.
Tunica externa

69
Q

What % of your blood does plasma make up?
Select one:
a. 55%
b. 90%
c.10%

A

55%

70
Q

The veins in the upper leg are divided into two groups, what are they?
Select one:
a.surface and deep
b.up and down
c.left and right

A

surface and deep

71
Q

What stops the blood from flowing the wrong way round the body?
Select one:
a.Valves in the heart
b.Epiglottis
c.Peristalsis

A

Valves in the heart

72
Q

A person of blood type AB could receive a donation from which blood group?

A

Any

73
Q

What happens when you cut yourself?
a.White blood cells form a scab
b.Antibodies stop you bleeding
c.Blood begins to clot

A

Blood begins to clot

74
Q

What Is a macrophage?
Select one:
a.A virus that attacks the blood system
b.Type of white blood cell
c.an abscess

A

Type of white blood cell

75
Q

What is Plasma?
Select one:
a.Liquid part of the blood
b.Grey material in the brain
c.The fluid in which serm live

A

Liquid part of the blood

76
Q

What does blood from the superior vena cava veins drain into?

A

Heart

77
Q

Where do you find the dorsalis pedis artery and vein?

A

in your foot

78
Q

What do B Lymphocytes do?
Select one:
a.They attack invading organisms directly
b.Produce antibodies
c.Produce antigens

A

Produce antibodies

79
Q

What do lymphocytes do?
Select one:
a.Filter blood
b.Destroy harmful bacteria
c.Produce plasma

A

Destroy harmful bacteria

80
Q

What is another name for the windpipe?
Select one:
a.Lungs
b.Larynx
c.Oesophagus
d.Trachea

A

trachea

81
Q

Oxygen moves from the lungs into the bloodstream through …
Select one:
a.small blood vessels in the lungs
b.a large artery in the heart
c.a tube in the lungs called the jugular vein
d.nerve fibers

A

small blood vessels in the lungs

82
Q

When we breathe, we inhale many gases including oxygen. What happens to the gases that the body can’t use?
Select one:
a.They circulate through the body an are disposed of later.
b.They are absorbed into the digestive system and used to create energy.
c.They are changed into oxygen by the lungs.
d.They are exhaled

A

They are exhaled

83
Q

Which organ is made up of air-carrying tubes and tiny sacs?

A

the lungs

84
Q

Air can enter the body and travel to the lungs …
Select one:
a.through the oesophagus and the gullet
b.through the nose and the nervous system
c.through the mouth and the nose
d.through the windpipe and the pores

A

through the mouth and the nose

85
Q

What is the main function of the respiratory system?
Select one:
a.Circulation
b.breathing
c.Inhale carbon dioxide

A

breathing

86
Q

Which part of the body is not used for the respiratory system to work?
Select one:
a.diaphram
b.Small intestine
c.nose
d.mouth

A

Small intestine

87
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A

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