ASVAB Study Guide with Complete Solutions
Ohms Law: - ✔️✔️Opposition to the flow of current.
Pharynx - ✔️✔️further filters the air and aids in protections against infection
Phenotype - ✔️✔️genes that express themselves in physical characteristics ex: eye color
Genotype - ✔️✔️genetic make up, including both dominant and recessive alleles.
Allies - ✔️✔️a gene which consists of hereditary factors
The Nervous system - ✔️✔️Controls the functions of the body and receives stimuli from
the environment
Spinal Cord - ✔️✔️major connecting system between the brain and network of nerves.
Carries impulse between all organs and the brains is also the control center for many
simple reflexs.
Epiglottis - ✔️✔️Closes when swallowing to prevent food from going down the airway into
the Trachea
Ecology - ✔️✔️Study of the interrelationship between organisms and their psychical
surrounding. Ecologist employ a similar set of terminology
Biosphere - ✔️✔️Zone of planet earth where life naturally occure including land, water,
and air extending from the deep crust to the lower atmosphere.
Biome - ✔️✔️Major life zone of interrelted species bound together by similar climate,
vegetation and animal life
Medulla (Brain stem) - ✔️✔️connection between the brain and the spinal cord. Controls
involuntary actions (Breathing, swallowing, beating of heart).
Tetiary Consumers (top carnivores) - ✔️✔️capable of eating secondary conumers
Geology - ✔️✔️is the science that deals with the history and composition of the earth and
its life, especially as recorded in rocks
Central nervous system - ✔️✔️contains all the other neurons found throughout the brain /
spinal cord
Cerbellum - ✔️✔️a big cluster of nerves tissue that forms the basis for the brain.
Concerned with muscular coordination and the coordination of impulses sent out from
the cerebrum
Pathway of the Heart - ✔️✔️1. Superior Vena Cava 2. Pulmonary Artery 3. Right Atrium 4.
Right Ventricle 5. Pulmonary arteries 6. Pulmonary Veins 7. Left Atrium 8. Left Ventricle
9. Aorta
The autonomic nervous system - ✔️✔️regulates involuntary action in the heart, stomach
and intestines
heart - ✔️✔️4. Chambered pump with two collection chambers called atria and two
pumping chambers called ventricles
Circulatory system - ✔️✔️transport nutrients throughout the body and get rids of waste
Right atrium - ✔️✔️recevies deoxygenated blood from the vena cava
Broncnioles/Alvelus - ✔️✔️1.When the bronchi further subdivide into smaller tubes 2.
Each Bronchiole ends in a small sac. The oxygen from the it enters into blood stream of
a capillaries.
Diaphragm - ✔️✔️system of muscles that allow the lungs to expand/contract drawing ir in
and out
Trachea - ✔️✔️further cleans air. Tranchea branches into left/right bronchi are two tubes
that lead to the lungs
Right Ventricle - ✔️✔️pumps blood through the lungs through the pulmonary artery
Pulmonary Vien - ✔️✔️where oxygented blood returns and than travles to the left atrium
than to the left ventricle, aroato, arties, body
Valves - ✔️✔️help the blood from flowing backwards into the heart
Arteriotes - ✔️✔️Smaller arteries, which supply blood to the tissue via the capillaries
Arteries - ✔️✔️carry blood from the heart ti the tissues of the body. Thick wallled,
conduction oxygenated lood at high blood pressure
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