A&P Exam 1 (Chapters 1-4) Review Questions with
solutions
What six functions characterize all living things? - ✔✔Organization
Responsiveness
Growth
Reproduction
Movement
Metabolism/Excretion
What is homeostasis? - ✔✔A steady state of internal environment of an organism.
What is the difference between positive and negative feedback? Give an example of each. - ✔✔
Positive feedback enhances change (labor contractions during birth, blood clotting, etc...)
Negative feedback resists change (body temperature, insulin, cortisol, etc...)
List the major body cavities in the human body - ✔✔Ventral
Pleural
Abdominal
Pelvic
Thoracic
Abdominopelvic
, What is the difference between anatomy and physiology? - ✔✔Anatomy studies structures
Physiology studies functions
What are some of the specialties of anatomy? - ✔✔Gross anatomy
Comparative anatomy
Surface anatomy
Regional anatomy
Developmental anatomy
What are some of the specialties of physiology? - ✔✔Cell physiology
Special (organ) physiology
Systemic physiology
Pathological physiology
What organs are found in the thoracic cavity? - ✔✔Heart and lungs
What organs are found in the dorsal body cavity? - ✔✔Cranial cavity and spinal cavity
What are the pleural and pericardial cavities? - ✔✔Pleural cavity: the potential space between
the two pleurae of the lungs.
Pericardial cavity: the potential space between the parietal pericardium and visceral layer.
solutions
What six functions characterize all living things? - ✔✔Organization
Responsiveness
Growth
Reproduction
Movement
Metabolism/Excretion
What is homeostasis? - ✔✔A steady state of internal environment of an organism.
What is the difference between positive and negative feedback? Give an example of each. - ✔✔
Positive feedback enhances change (labor contractions during birth, blood clotting, etc...)
Negative feedback resists change (body temperature, insulin, cortisol, etc...)
List the major body cavities in the human body - ✔✔Ventral
Pleural
Abdominal
Pelvic
Thoracic
Abdominopelvic
, What is the difference between anatomy and physiology? - ✔✔Anatomy studies structures
Physiology studies functions
What are some of the specialties of anatomy? - ✔✔Gross anatomy
Comparative anatomy
Surface anatomy
Regional anatomy
Developmental anatomy
What are some of the specialties of physiology? - ✔✔Cell physiology
Special (organ) physiology
Systemic physiology
Pathological physiology
What organs are found in the thoracic cavity? - ✔✔Heart and lungs
What organs are found in the dorsal body cavity? - ✔✔Cranial cavity and spinal cavity
What are the pleural and pericardial cavities? - ✔✔Pleural cavity: the potential space between
the two pleurae of the lungs.
Pericardial cavity: the potential space between the parietal pericardium and visceral layer.
