Fit & Healthy

Question 1

What do marrows do?

Answer 1

Produce blood cells

Question 2

What does the cranium protect? (Skull)

Answer 2

The brain and eyes

Question 3

What do the ribs protect?

Answer 3

The heart, lungs

Question 4

What does the pelvis protect?

Answer 4

Bladder and intestines

Question 5

What does the vertebrae protect?

Answer 5

The spinal cord

Question 6

What is the scientific name for the funny bone?

Answer 6

Humorous

Question 7

What is the biggest bone in the body?

Answer 7

Femur (thigh)

Question 8

What are red blood cells like?

Answer 8

Flexible shape to pass easily through small blood vessels. No nucleus and large surface area for more space for oxygen

Question 9

How do you recognise how fit a person is?

Answer 9

Their resting pulse rate (low), during exercise pulse rate doesn’t increase as much, after exercise pulse rate returns to normal quickly

Question 10

What are some effects of smoking?

Answer 10

Wrinkles, tar filled lungs, cancer, gum disease, stained teeth, increase chance of death, addiction, bad breath, struggling to breathe, coughing, finger discolour

Question 11

Why do some people smoke?

Answer 11

Stress, addiction, peer pressure, attention, depression, bad influence, rebellious

Question 12

What are some chemicals in cigarettes? Why are they so bad?

Answer 12

Arsenic - poisonous, spots on hands, feet and neck, vomiting, diarrhoea, blood in urine, hair loss, cramping muscles, stomach pain. Ammonia - damages cells

Question 13

What are some long term effects of alcohol?

Answer 13

Weight gain (beer belly), liver damage, damage to brain, addiction, weaken immune system, increase cholesterol

Question 14

What are some short term effects of alcohol?

Answer 14

Hangover, memory loss, sober, vomiting, headaches, loss of balance, delayed reactions, hiccups, dizziness

Question 15

What is a “unit” in terms of alcohol?

Answer 15

How much alcohol a drink has as a percentage

Question 16

How do you find the unit for an alcoholic drink?

Answer 16

Volume(ml) x Alcohol(%) / 1000

Question 17

What is one alcoholic unit equivalent to?

Answer 17

8g and 10ml

Question 18

What are the four types of drugs?

Answer 18

Hallucinogens, stimulants, pain killers, depressants

Question 19

What are hallucinogens? Give examples. Why do people take it?

Answer 19

Make you see things that aren’t actually there. Examples: magic mushrooms
To escape from reality

Question 20

What are stimulants? Give examples. Why do people take it?

Answer 20

Speeds up things. E.g. Cocaine, caffeine, tobacco. Increase heart rate and reaction times

Question 21

What are pain killers? Give examples. Why do people take it?

Answer 21

Block nerve cells from getting to the brain. E.g. Heroin, paracetamol, aspirin, morphine

Question 22

What are depressants? Give examples. Why do people take it?

Answer 22

Slow down reaction times. W.g. Cannabis, alcohol. Decrease heart rate and reaction times

Question 23

What is more illegal? Class A or B drugs?

Answer 23

Class A

Question 24

What is a drug?

Answer 24

A substance that can change the chemical reactions in the body

Question 25

What does tar do to the lungs?

Answer 25

Causes cancer and coats the inside of the lungs and alveoli making it difficult for gas exchange

Question 26

What does smoke do to the lungs?

Answer 26

Damages the cilia (cells with tiny hair-like parts that move the mucus out the lungs) which causes the smokers cough to move the mucus

Question 27

What does nicotine do to the lungs?

Answer 27

It is addictive. Increases the heart rate and blood pressure and makes blood vessels narrower which leads to heart disease

Question 28

What are the functions of the skeleton?

Answer 28

Movement, protection of organs, structure, production of blood (marrows)

Question 29

How do muscles help move bones?

Answer 29

The muscles can only pull. To raise the forearm, the bicep contracts and the tricep relaxes. To lower,the triceps contract and the biceps relax