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What is the function of the urinary system? - Answer-To filter blood, remove waste in the form of urine What are the four organs involved in the urinary system? - Answer-Kidneys, ureters, bladder, urethra What is the function of the kidney? - Answer-To filter blood and create urea What are ureters? - Answer-Tubes that transfer the urea from the kidney to the bladder What is the bladder? - Answer-Holds the urine until it can be removed What is the urethra? - Answer-Transports the urine out of the body What is the function of the nervous system? - Answer-Information collection and response, control of basic body functions What organs/structures are involved in the nervous system? - Answer-Brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, sensory organs What are peripheral nerves? - Answer-Nerves that carry signals to and from limbs What is the function of the immune system? - Answer-Prevents and eliminates infections What are the organs of the immune system? - Answer-Thymus, tonsils, appendix, spleen, lymph nodes, skin What is the thymus? - Answer-Promotes production of WBCs What are the tonsils? - Answer-Trap pathogens as they enter the bodyWhat is the appendix? - Answer-Stores good bacteria What is the spleen? - Answer-Filters blood What are the lymph nodes? - Answer-Filter lymph fluid What is the function of the digestive system? - Answer-To break down food into nutrients to fuel the body What are the organs of the digestive system? - Answer-Teeth/tongue, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, rectum, anus, gall bladder, liver What is the pharynx? - Answer-Connects the mouth to the esophagus What is the rectum? - Answer-The final section of the large intestine What is the anus? - Answer-Part of the body from which stool is released What is the gall bladder? - Answer-Small membranous sac that stores bile and releases it into the large intestine What is the liver? - Answer-Makes bile for the small intestine What is the function of the respiratory system? - Answer-Takes in oxygen for cells and removes cellular CO2 waste. What are the organs of the respiratory system? - Answer-Nasal cavity, pharynx, larynx, trachea, epiglottis, bronchi,, alveoliWhat is the function of the cardiovascular system? - Answer-Moves blood throughout the body What organs/structures make up the cardiovascular system? - Answer-Atria, ventricles, arteries, arterioles, veins, venules, capillaries What is the function of the endocrine system? - Answer-Responsible for secretion of hormones anterior - Answer-front ventral - Answer-front (belly) posterior - Answer-back dorsal - Answer-back superior - Answer-higher, above inferior - Answer-lower, below lateral - Answer-side medial - Answer-toward the middle proximal - Answer-on limb, nearer to attachment point far distal - Answer-on limb, farther from attachment point nearsuperficial - Answer-more external, surface of the body deep - Answer-more internal What does epithelial tissue do? - Answer-COVERS lines organs and body cavities How is epithelial tissue structured? - Answer-Layers (one kind of cells inside, different kind outside) What does muscle tissue do? - Answer-MOVES makes up all muscles, including the heart How is muscle tissue structured? - Answer-Long and narrow so they can contract to allow movement What does nervous tissue do? - Answer-SIGNALS includes neurons How is nervous tissue structured? - Answer-long axons to allow signals to travel distances, branches for connections What does connective tissue do? - Answer-JOINS adipose (fat), blood, bone, cartilage, etc. How is connective tissue structured? - Answer-fairly consistent matrix to allow it to fill spaces of various shapes/sizes What is the axial skeleton? - Answer-the skull and trunk PROTECTS soft organs like brain, heart, lungsWhat is the appendicular skeleton? - Answer-the arms and legs used for LOCOMOTION What is forensic anthropology? - Answer-the study of mankind; bones at a crime scene Male skull eye sockets - Answer-square Female skull eye sockets - Answer-rounded Male skull mandible - Answer-u-shaped Female skull mandible - Answer-v-shaped