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Human Anatomy and Physiology
1st Term Exam
1. This is the branch of science that
deals with the structure of body
parts—their forms and how they
are organized.
A. Psychology
B. Anatomy
C. Psychiatry
D. Physiology
6. This is the branch of science that
considers the composition of
matter and how that composition
changes.
A. Anatomy
B. Physiology
C. Chemistry
D. Psychology
2. The study of the things body
parts do and how they do it is
called ______?
A. Psychology
B. Anatomy
C. Psychiatry
D. Physiology
7. Matter is ________.
A. Made up of atoms
B. Can be a solid, liquid, or gas
C. Anything that has mass and
takes up space
D. All of the above
3. _________ is all the physical and
chemical changes that occur in
the body.
A. Requirements of organisms
B. Chemistry
C. Metabolism
D. Characteristics of life
4. What is homeostasis?
A. Two identical chromosomes in
a cell’s nucleus
B. The maintenance of a stable
internal environment.
C. The duplication of various
organelles of the cell
D. Both A and B
5. Your left leg would be part of
which portion of your body?
A. The axial skeleton
B. The axial portion
C. The appendicular skeleton
D. The appendicular portion
8. Your abdomenopelvic cavity
would be in which portion of
your body?
A. The axial skeleton
B. The axial portion
C. The appendicular skeleton
D. The appendicular portion
9. What 4 elements collectively
make up more than 95% of your
body weight?
A. Carbon, Lead, Lithium, and
Sugars
B. Proteins, Lipids, Carbohydrates,
and Nucleic Acids
C. Carbon, Oxygen, Nitrogen, and
Hydrogen
D. Carbon, Oxygen, Hydrogen, and
Helium
10. What term denotes the number of
protons you would find in the
nucleus of a given atom?
A. Atomic Number
B. Atomic Weight
C. Atomic Energy Quotient
D. Atomic Proton Count
11. How would you calculate the
approximate atomic weight of an
atom?
A. Divide the number of protons in
nucleus by the number of
electrons in electron shell #1.
B. Add the number of protons in
the nucleus of the atom to the
number of neutrons found in the
atom.
C. Add the number of protons
found in an atom to the number
of electrons in the atom.
D. Subtract the number of protons
in the atom from the number of
protons in the atom.
12. What does the term “selectively
permeable” mean?
A. Selectively permeable means
that the cell allows some
substances to enter but does not
allow anything to leave.
B. Selectively permeable means
that the contents of a cell remain
static at all times.
C. Selectively permeable refers to
the nuclear membrane.
D. Selectively permeable describes
the cell membrane’s capacity to
allow certain
molecules/substances to enter or
exit the cell.
13. If Carbon has an atomic weight
of 12 and its atomic number is 6,
how many neutrons would you
expect to find in the nucleus?
A. 6
B. 12
C. 3
D. Not enough information was
provided to answer the question.
14. Which of the following would be
an example of diffusion?
A. Food coloring spreading out to
eventually evenly color the water
in a beaker.
B. Water moving across a
selectively permeable membrane
from an area of higher
concentration to an area of lower
concentration.
C. When ions or molecules scatter
or spread spontaneously from
regions where they are in higher
concentrations to areas where
they are in lower concentration.
D. All of the above
15. What process is taking place
when blood pressure forces
plasma through capillary walls?
This process lets smaller
molecules pass but does not
allow the escape of larger
molecules.
A. Filtration
B. Diffusion
C. Active Transport
D. Osmosis
16. Water moving across a
selectively permeable membrane
is called _____?
A. Active Transport
B. Osmosis
C. Selective Evaporation
D. Non-plant related transpiration
17. Osmosis is a type of diffusion.
A. True
B. False
18. A metabolic reaction that builds
larger molecules from smaller
ones and requires energy is
called ______?
A. Active Transport
B. Passive Transport
C. Anabolism
D. Catabolism
24. This form of cellular energy
production takes place in the
mitochondria and requires
oxygen to take place..
A. Aerobic respiration
B. Glycolysis
C. Anaerobic respiration
D. Fermentation
19. Enzymes are almost exclusively
carbohydrates.
A. True
B. False
25. These are groups of cells that
have specialized structural and
functional roles.
A. Atoms
B. Cells
C. Tissues
D. Organ system
20. Glycolysis is catabolic reaction
involving glucose that takes
place in the cytoplasm of a cell.
A. True
B. False
21. Which of the following would be
an example of a catabolic
reaction?
A. The cells producing proteins at a
ribosome by combining various
amino acids.
B. The breakdown of a chicken
tender in your digestive system.
C. The growth of toe knuckle hair
D. The combining of simple sugars
to form a disaccharide or starch.
22. These molecules promote
chemical reactions within cells.
They do this by lowering the
amount of activation energy
required for the reaction to occur.
A. Enzyme
B. Protein synthesis molecules
C. Carbohydrate molecules
D. Nucleic acids
23. Glycolysis requires oxygen to
occur.
A. True
B. False
26. What are the four types of tissue
found in the human body?
A. Charmin, White Cloud, Kleenex,
and Bounty
B. Skin, Hair, Blood, Bone
C. Epithelial, connective, muscle,
nervous
D. None of the above
27. Would anaerobic respiration be
an anabolic reaction or a
catabolic reaction?
A. Anabolic
B. Catabolic
28. A sweat gland secretes sweat, or
some other material, onto the
surface of your body. Therefore,
sweat glands are _______ glands.
A. Exocrine glands
B. Endocrine glands
C. Surface glands
D. Epidermal glands
29. The material in between the cells
of your bones or other organs is
called _____.
A. Cytoplasm
B. Nuclear membrane
C. Matrix
D. Organelles
30. Glands in your stomach secrete
various gastric juices; these
glands would be of what type?
A. Exocrine glands
B. Endocrine glands
C. Surface glands
D. Epidermal glands
31. ___________ glands secrete
directly into blood or body fluids.
A. Exocrine glands
B. Endocrine glands
C. Surface glands
D. Epidermal glands
32. What makes up the
Integumentary system?
A. Skin
B. Bones and cartilage
C. Muscles and bones
D. The cutaneous membrane and
certain accessory organs.
33. Which of the following is NOT a
function of the skin?
A. Helps regulate body temperature
B. Production of necessary
digestive enzymes
C. Excretes wastes
D. Houses sensory receptors
34. What is the role of the
melanocytes in your
Integumentary system?
A. They give your skin its color
B. They make your skin more
flexible
C. They produce the pigment that
give skin and hair its color
D. They produce various
biochemicals that are necessary
for cellular respiration.
35. An athlete has been working out
vigorously for approximately 30
minutes. She is sweating
profusely from her forehead,
back, and neck. Which type of
sweat glands would likely be
active in this case?
A. Post Cutaceous sweat glands
B. Apocrine sweat glands
C. Eccrine sweat glands
D. Semi-porous sweat glands
36. Spongy bone has no gaps in its
matrix.
A. True
B. False
37. This type of bone tissue is
composed of tightly packed
tissue and has a continuous
matrix.
A. Compact bone
B. Spongy bone
C. Interdigital bone
D. Calcium based bone
38. A young man, who shall be
called “T”, was walking down a
dark hallway. Another young
man, by the name of Hunter,
jumped out from a hiding place
and screamed, “Boo!” at “T”.
“T” was very, very, afraid and
upset. He even fell down and
scraped his knee causing some
physical pain. After “T’s” scare
he noticed that he was sweating
in his axiillary and groin region.
Most likely “T’s” scare resulted
in the activation of this type of
sweat gland.
A. Post cutaneous sweat glands
B. Apocrine sweat glands
C. Eccrine sweat glands
D. Semi-porous sweat glands
39. Intramembranous bones develop
between two membrane like
layers of connective tissue. This
type of bone is found in the skull.
A. True
B. False
40. An osteocyte is a cell that breaks
bone down.
A. True
B. False
41. This type of bone is found in the
long bones of the body. It forms
from bone shaped masses of
hyaline cartilage.
A. Spongy bone
B. Compact bone
C. Intramembranous bone
D. Endrochrondral bone
42. A long bone can continue to
grow as long as the_________
_______ is active. This area is
composed of a band of cartilage
that includes young cells that are
undergoing mitosis and
producing new cells.
A. Primary ossification
center
B. Secondary ossification
center
C. Epiphyseal disk
D. Bone center
43. This type of bone cell is not
breaking down bone or building
up bone.
A. Osteocyte
B. Osteoblast
C. Osteoclast
D. Osteon
44. This type of bone cell is actively
producing matrix and creating
more bone.
A. Osteocyte
B. Osteoblast
C. Osteoclast
D. Osteon
45. Osteocytes were, at some point,
osteoblasts.
A. True
B. False