Anatomy and Physiology Questions for Quiz 1

Module 1

1. What is anatomy?
2. What are the four different types of anatomy (studies) learned, and what are they for?
3. What is physiology?
4. What are the subdivisions of physiology? Name examples of each.
5. Why do we study Anatomy and Physiology together?
6. What are the 10 characteristics of human life?
7. What is the most important characteristic of body structure?
8. The body as a whole is a ____ constructed of the following ___ ___
9. What are the smaller units of the body? (6) and describe them
10. Which unit is the first unit considered to be alive?
11. Describe microscopic and macroscopic.
12. What is the definition of the anatomical position? Describe it.
13. What are the anatomical directions?
14. What does superior mean?
15. What does inferior mean?
16. What does anterior mean?
17. What does posterior mean?
18. What does medial mean?
19. What does lateral mean?
20. What does proximal mean?
21. What does distal mean?
22. What does superficial mean?
23. What does deep mean?
24. What is lumen?
25. What do central and peripheral mean?
26. What do medullary and cortical mean?
27. What do basal and apical mean?
28. What are the four body plants and sections?
29. Describe the sagittal plane.
30. Describe the transverse plane.
31. Describe the coronal plane.
32. What are the two main body cavities? And which cavities are within them?
33. Which organs are in each of those cavities?
34. Name all 9 regions and 4 quadrants of the abdominopelvic cavity and list the organs
within them.
35. Which cavity do the liver, lungs, uterus, kidney, heart, brain belong?
36. What does the axial region consist of?
37. What does the appendicular region consist of? Which organs are part of these?
38. When do structure and function of the body undergo most changes?
39. Which periods do body functions function the least?
40. When is the period of the greatest homeostatic efficiency?
41. What is homeostasis?
42. Describe the internal environment diagram (bag of water)
43. What are homeostatic control mechanisms?
44. What are the basic components of control mechanisms?
45. What are the two different feedbacks?
46. Describe negative feedback
47. Describe positive feedback
48. Which is more common?
49. Give an example of each feedback control mechanism.
50. Which one stabilizes physiological variables?
51. Which one amplifies or reinforces the change that is occurring?
52. Which one produces an action that is opposite to the change that activated the system?
53. Which one tends to produce destabilizing effects and disrupts homeostasis?
54. Which one is responsible for maintaining homeostasis?
55. Which one brings specific body functions to swift completion
56. When you are cold outside, which component is your skin? Your hypothalamus? The
process of shivering? What kind of feedback loop is this?
57. When you are giving birth, which component is the stretch receptors? Uterine muscle
stretching more? The hypothalamus? What kind of feedback loop is this?
58. What are the three levels of homeostatic control?
59. Describe each of the three homeostatic controls. Give an example of each.
60. What is an organ?
61. What is an organ system?
62. What are the 11 main organ system of the body? Describe their function/structure.
63. Do all body system functions work interdependently of other systems? And why or why
not?