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Spencer_Elisabeth test: body organizations, systems, and homeostasis Flashcards

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7. What does a transverse plane look like?

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From your left hand to right split in the middle straight up and down

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2. What does proximal mean?

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Need energy to carry out life processes

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8. The sagittal plane is represented by what?

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Straight up and down from your left hand to right hand

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9. Which plane divides from top to bottom?

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Completely divided in the middle pointing up

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10. The frontal plane is represented by what?

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From back to front longways

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14. What organ system supports the body, protects the vital organs and makes the blood cells?

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The skeletal system

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16. What unit of organization is represented by nervous tissue?

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Tissue

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17. What is the frontal plane known as?

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Segments the body into front and back portions of the body

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19. The smallest structure capable of carrying out all life processes is the what?

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Cell

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22. The role of the respiratory system is to bring what substance into the body?

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Carbon dioxide

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23. How does your body prevent your blood sugar from going to high?

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Your pancreas will secrete insulin. Insulin will cause the sugar to move on to body cells from the blood

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24. What is an example of negative feedback?

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A dog panting in the hot sun

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26. Which system delivers oxygen and nutrients to the body parts that need them?

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Circulatory system

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27. What’s the sagittal plane?

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Segments the body into a distinct right and left

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32. What happens if the core body temperature is too high?

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Blood vessels supplying the capillaries dilate

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40. What type of tissue makes part of the body movie by contracting, or shortening?

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Muscle

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41. Messages are carried back and forth between the brain and other parts of the body by what?

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The nervous system

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46. Heart and blood vessels are organs of what system?

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Circulatory

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47. What would not happen if the core body temperature was too low?

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Sweat would cool the body as it evaporated

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48. Which system breaks down food so that nutrients and water can be used by the body?

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Digestive system

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49. What happens when you get hot? (In order)

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  1. Your body begins overheating
  2. Nerves and hormones communicate with hypothalamus
  3. You begin sweating
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51. What does distal mean?

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Further away from the trunk

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54. What’s the transverse plane?

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Separates the top from the bottom

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56. What does your nervous have in common with your circulatory system?

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They’re both networks that stretch throughout your entire body

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59. What’s an illustrative example of negative feedback?

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High blood sugar is lowered by insulin workings the liver

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66. What are other words for saying the human body’s systems are interrelated?

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They depend on each other

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69. The organs of the endocrine system produce chemical messengers called what?

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Hormones

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71. What is the relationship between a cell and a tissue?

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They both perform similar functions

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70. What is a group of similar cells that perform a specific function?

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Tissue

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71. If a tissue is composed of similar cells that per from a specific function. What is the most basic thing in a loving structure?

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Cell

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72. What’s an organ?

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A group of similar tissues hat work together to perform a specific job that is more complex than the function of each tissue by itself

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73. What’s a system?

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A group of structured that perform broad functions

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20. What might happen if your kidneys malfunctioned?

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The water level in your blood might go out of balance

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