SCIENCE PART I
Alveoli are tiny sacs surrounded by what? Correct Answer: capillaries
Veins are blood vessels that transport blood from the capillaries to the what? Correct Answer: heart
Arteries are blood vessels that transport blood away from the heart and to the what? Correct Answer:
capillaries
what serves as the location for the exchange of oxygen, carbon dioxide fluid and nutrients within the
body? Correct Answer: capillaries
What are the bronchial tubes are lined with? Correct Answer: cilia
What circulatory system includes what body structures? Correct Answer: Heart, Blood, Blood Vessels
Deoxygenated blood enters the heart through which two structures? Correct Answer: 1) Superior vena
cava
2) Inferior vena cava
when the right atrium contracts, blood flows through the tricuspid valve and goes where? Correct
Answer: Right ventricle
How many chambers does the heart have & what are the names of the chambers? Correct Answer: The
heart has 4 chambers. 1-Right Atrium, 2-left Atrium, 3-Right ventricle, 4-Left ventricle
Inhaled air travels from the trachea into what structure? Correct Answer: the right & left bronchial
tubes
When the left ventricle contracts, blood flows through the what? Correct Answer: Aorta
The mitral and aortic valves are on which side? Correct Answer: Left side
Name the four valves in the heart Correct Answer: 1) Aortic
2) Pulmonary
3) Bicuspid
4)Bicuspid (aka mitrial valve)
Oxygenated blood flows from the lungs into the left? Correct Answer: Atrium
The respiratory process begins when air is inhaled through the nose and into the what? Correct Answer:
Trachea
,What does the respiratory system supply to the tissues of the body? Correct Answer: Oxygenated blood
The tricuspid and pulmonary valves are both on what side of the heart? Correct Answer: The right side
when the right ventricle contracts blood flows into the Pulmonary artery and the into where? Correct
Answer: the lungs.
What is Cell Theory? Correct Answer: 1) All cells arise from preexisting cells.
2) Cells can carry out the processes of life.
3) Organisms are made of cells that function together.
The end products of photosynthesis are? Correct Answer: Oxygen & Glucose
The process of cytoplasm division during plant cell replication is known as? Correct Answer: Cytokinesis
What principle is this? "An object immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the
fluid displaced by the object." Correct Answer: Archimede's Principle
Hardening of the arteries is known as? Correct Answer: Arteriosclerosis
Cholesterol known as LDL means? Correct Answer: Low Density Lipoproteins
What does Lock & Key model mean? Correct Answer: A model for enzyme actions
what formula indicates the ideal as law? Correct Answer: PV=RnT
Receiving a vaccine against a disease, what type of immunity is this considered? Correct Answer: Active.
An alternate form of a gene is called? Correct Answer: allele
What is an allele? Correct Answer: An allele is one of two or more forms of a gene or a genetic locus. If
an organism has two sets, they are diploid.
The study of the structure of organs and body systems is called? Correct Answer: Anatomy
What is an atom with a negative charge? Correct Answer: anion (- ion)
What is an atom with a positive charge? Correct Answer: cation (+ ion)
what carries blood away from the heart? Correct Answer: arteries
Arteries carry blood away from the heart to the? Correct Answer: Capillaries
What are veins? Correct Answer: carries blood from the capillaries back to the heart (02 poor)
What are arteries? Correct Answer: Carry oxygen rich blood away from the heart
, What are capillaries? Correct Answer: Capillaries are the exchange vessels. They are microscopic and
have only one wall—tunica intima—allowing substances to pass through quickly.
What is an atom? Correct Answer: An atom is the smallest unit of matter that still remains the
properties of an element.
what is an atomic mass number? Correct Answer: Equals the total number of protons and neutrons
found within the nucleus of a atom.
What is an atomic number? Correct Answer: the number of protons/electrons that an element has (ex.
Carbon's number is 6: it has six protons; it has six electrons.)
What is an autotroph? Correct Answer: An organism that makes its own food.
What is are vacuoles? Correct Answer: "containers" or holding units in animal cells for water and
organic substances.
what are lysosomes? Correct Answer: -intracellular digestion
What are peroxisome? Correct Answer: Contain oxidase enzymes that detoxify alcohol, hydrogen
peroxide, and other harmful chemicals
Adenine and guanine are purines that have? Correct Answer: 2 ring structure
What is an axon? Correct Answer: Transmit impulses AWAY from cell body of neuron
In an redox reaction the reducting agent will? Correct Answer: Lose electrons and be oxidized.
What do you call a liquid that evaporates quickly? Correct Answer: Volatile
High frequency sound waves are known as? Correct Answer: Overtones
Overtones Correct Answer: High frequency sound waves are known as
what does prostaglandins do? Correct Answer: Carry out vasodilation, vasoconstriction, uterine
contraction.
what cellular organelle contains enzymes that are considered digestive? Correct Answer: Lysosomes
What does mitosis mean? Correct Answer: The division of normal body cells for growth and repair.
organs repair themselves through a process of? Correct Answer: mitosis
what does aural mean? Correct Answer: in or of the ear
Did King Phillip Come Over For Good Soup? Correct Answer: Domain, Kingdom, phylum, class, order,
family, genus, species