Water, Life, And Human Body

Question 0

What is an intermolecular force?

Answer 0

Force that holds molecules together

Question 1

What makes water polar?

Answer 1

The molecule has lopsided charges

Question 2

What is Cohesion?

Answer 2

An intermolecular force between LIKE molecules

Question 3

What is adhesion?

Answer 3

An intermolecular force between UNLIKE molecules

Question 4

What is surface tension?

Answer 4

Characteristic of water caused by water molecules bonding with each other at the surface

Question 5

What is capillary action?

Answer 5

Characteristic of water caused by cohesion and adhesion that allows water to move against the force of gravity in a small tube

Question 6

Other characteristics of water (4)

Answer 6

Universal solvent
High specific heat
Ice is less dense than water
Solid, liquid, and gas at Earthly temperatures

Question 7

Why is water considered the universal solvent?

Answer 7

Dissolves more than anything in the universe

Question 8

Seven characteristics of life

Answer 8

Uses energy
Reproduce
Grows
Has cells
Different levels of organization 
Respond to its evironment
Adapts to its environment

Question 9

What does it mean to be a characteristic of life?

Answer 9

Something you need to be alive

Question 10

Levels of organization to build a multi-cellular organism? (9)

Answer 10

Atoms
Molecules
Macromolecules
Organelles
Cells
Tissue
Organ
Organ system
Organism

Question 11

Higher levels of organization when interacting with environment? (5)

Answer 11

Population- same species interacting
Community- other living things interacting
Ecosystem- living and non-living things interacting
Biome- interacting with other Ecosystems
Biosphere- all biomes on Earths surface interacting

Question 12

What is biology?

Answer 12

Study of life

Question 13

What is an organism?

Answer 13

A living person with all characteristics of life

Question 14

What is anatomy?

Answer 14

Study of structure

Question 15

What is physiology?

Answer 15

Study of function

Question 16

List the eight body systems

Answer 16

Skeletal- structure and support
Digestive- covert food into energy/ remove waste
Muscular- movement

Respiratory- oxygen to blood/ remove carbon
Cirrculatory- takes oxygen to cells
Endocrine- releases hormones/ tells organs
Excretory- remove waste
Nervous- tells body what to do

Question 17

What are the three types of muscles?

Answer 17

Smooth- in organs (involuntary)
Cardiac- in heart (involuntary)
Skeletal- attached to bones (voluntary)

Question 18

What does it mean to be voluntary?

Answer 18

You tell your body to move it. If you don’t tell your body to move, it won’t.

Question 19

What does it mean to involuntary?

Answer 19

Your body does it for you. You dot have to think about it, it just happens.

Question 20

How do skeletal muscles attach to bones?

Answer 20

Tendons attach the muscle of from end of a bone, to another end of a different bone

Question 21

How do skeletal muscles work together?

Answer 21

Muscles work in pairs. When one muscles flexes, the other returns to its original lengths

Question 22

Organs in skeletal system? (3)

Answer 22

Bones, ligaments, tendons

Question 23

Organs in muscular system? (2)

Answer 23

Tendons, muscles

Question 24

Organs in nervous system? (2)

Answer 24

Nerves, brain

Question 25

Organs in respiratory system? (2)

Answer 25

Bronchioles, lungs

Question 26

Organs in circulatory system? (3)

Answer 26

Veins, small intestine, heart

Question 27

Organs in digestive system? (2)

Answer 27

Large intestine, small intestine

Question 28

Organs in excretory system? (2)

Answer 28

Kidneys, liver

Question 29

Organism endocrine system? (2)

Answer 29

Thyroid, pituitary