Spencer_Elisabeth test: body organizations, systems, and homeostasis Flashcards
7. What does a transverse plane look like?
From your left hand to right split in the middle straight up and down
- Anatomical planes and sections
2. What does proximal mean?
Need energy to carry out life processes
- Anatomical planes and sections
8. The sagittal plane is represented by what?
Straight up and down from your left hand to right hand
- Anatomical planes and sections
9. Which plane divides from top to bottom?
Completely divided in the middle pointing up
- Anatomical planes and sections
10. The frontal plane is represented by what?
From back to front longways
- Body_Systems (CLF)
14. What organ system supports the body, protects the vital organs and makes the blood cells?
The skeletal system
- Body_Systems (CLF)
16. What unit of organization is represented by nervous tissue?
Tissue
11&12. WKST_-_Body_Organization_and_Homeostasis
17. What is the frontal plane known as?
Segments the body into front and back portions of the body
- Anatomical planes and sections
19. The smallest structure capable of carrying out all life processes is the what?
Cell
- CellularBiology
22. The role of the respiratory system is to bring what substance into the body?
Carbon dioxide
- Body_Systems (CLF)
23. How does your body prevent your blood sugar from going to high?
Your pancreas will secrete insulin. Insulin will cause the sugar to move on to body cells from the blood
- Homeostasis notes
24. What is an example of negative feedback?
A dog panting in the hot sun
- Homeostasis notes
26. Which system delivers oxygen and nutrients to the body parts that need them?
Circulatory system
- Body_Systems (CLF)
27. What’s the sagittal plane?
Segments the body into a distinct right and left
- Anatomical planes and sections
32. What happens if the core body temperature is too high?
Blood vessels supplying the capillaries dilate
- Homeostasis notes
40. What type of tissue makes part of the body movie by contracting, or shortening?
Muscle
- Homeostasis notes
41. Messages are carried back and forth between the brain and other parts of the body by what?
The nervous system
- Body_Systems (CLF)
46. Heart and blood vessels are organs of what system?
Circulatory
- Body_Systems (CLF)
47. What would not happen if the core body temperature was too low?
Sweat would cool the body as it evaporated
- Homeostasis notes
48. Which system breaks down food so that nutrients and water can be used by the body?
Digestive system
- Body_Systems (CLF)
49. What happens when you get hot? (In order)
- Your body begins overheating
- Nerves and hormones communicate with hypothalamus
- You begin sweating
- Homeostasis notes and brain pop
51. What does distal mean?
Further away from the trunk
- Phi, Fibonacci, golden rule in nature Copy
54. What’s the transverse plane?
Separates the top from the bottom
- Phi, Fibonacci, golden rule in nature Copy
56. What does your nervous have in common with your circulatory system?
They’re both networks that stretch throughout your entire body
- Body_Systems (CLF)
