Final Exam

What surrounds and acts as a cushion to protects the lungs?

What serves as an airway to the lungs and divides into two bronchi?

True or false: One purpose of the Musculoskeletal system is to provide shape, form, and support to the body.

True or false: Calcium and other mineral reserves are stored in the pancreas.

What is the name of the sac around the heart?

What sends and receives nerve impulses to/from the rest of the body through the spinal nerves?

The brain is the site of what?

What interacts with the endocrine glands to influence other systems and body functions?

Which chemicals act on specific tissues and affect the body’s internal balance?

True or false: The digestive tract runs from the mouth to the anus.

True or false: A stable nervous system is not necessary for healthy digestion.

What contains melanocytes, sebaceous glands and sweat glands.

True or false: Bone marrow is located in the medullary canal in the long bones.

The divisions of the peripheral nervous system include:

True or false: A longitudinal fissure divides the brain into two halves known as the right and left cerebral hemispheres.

What is the cell’s control center that contains DNA, RNA, and proteins?

What is another name for the dermis?

What is the genetic material from which all of the chromosomes in the cell are formed? It is the governor of protein synthesis and inheritance.

What covers the surface of the bones?

This controls involuntary actions.

What enables the body to make precise movements such as lifting a glass or speaking?

Heart muscle and smooth muscle are examples of what?

The brain and the spinal cord are apart of what?

What are the membranes that cover the brain?

True or false: The pituitary gland is the “master gland” that controls many other glands and cells.

The brain houses which of the following glands?

This nerve and its sensory and motor fibers are involved in vital bodily functions.

This gland plays a role in regulating metabolism.

True or false: The parathyroid glands regulate melatonin levels.

What do the ovaries secrete?

True or false: The myocardium is a special type of muscle that makes up the heart.

What is the only organ that requires more blood than the heart?

True or false: The coronary artery carries the blood, deoxygenated blood and waste products away from the heart.

What increases the amount of blood being pumped to muscles?

True or false: The jugular vein transports gastrointestinal blood to the liver, which absorbs and stores nutrients and also removes toxins and pollutants.

Which of the following are part of the lymphatic system?

True or false: Our lymphatic system is our second circulatory system that only moves when we move our muscles.

True or false: The bronchioles end in tiny air sacs called alveoli.

The eight different names along the digestive track are:

True or false: Body cells need energy to function.

What is at the center of each tooth that contains blood vessels and nerves?

The duodenum, jejunum, and ileum are the 3 sections of what?

Which of the following is NOT a function of the liver?

The conversion of chyme into feces is the primary role of the what?

True or false: The two tubes that connect the kidneys with the bladder are called the fallopian tubes.

True or false: The function of the bladder is to convert filtrate into urine.

Another name for the renal tubule is what?

True or false: During ejaculation sperm are propelled along a duct called the vas deferens.

The Glomerululs is part of which system?

The cerebrum is divided in four paired lobes. What are they?