Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Homeostasis
- Nervous System
- Central Nervous System
(CNS)
- Brain
- Parts of the
brain
- Hypothalamus
- Helps regulate body temperature
- Helps the body realise hunger and thirst
- Plays a role in emotions
- Releases and controls many hormones that the body needs to function
- Pituitary gland
- Regulates and releases important hormones to our body
- Plays a big part in the body's overall wellbeing
- Brain
stem
- Breathing
- Heart rate
- Blood pressure
- Swallowing
- PLays a role in alertness and sensation
- Cerebrum
- Divided into two hemishperes
- Largest part of the brain
- Controls all conscience activities
- Cerebellum
- Responsibles for movement, balance and coordination
- Allows us to stand upright, keep our
balance and move around
- Frontal Lobe
- Planning and organising
- Problem solving and decision making
- Memory and attention
- Controlling behaviour, emtions and impulses
- Left frontal lobe plays a large role in speech and language
- Temporal Lobe
- Recognizing and processing sound
- Understanding and producing speech
- Various aspects of memory
- Occipital Lobe
- Receives and processes visual information
- Contains areas that help in
perceiving shapes and colours
- Parietal Lobe
- Intergrate sensory information from various parts of
the body and contains primary sensory cortex, which
controls sensation (hot, touch, cold, pain)
- Tells us which way is up and helps keeping us
from bumping into things when we walk
- Spinal cord
- Peripheral Nervous
System
- Somatic Nervous System
- Controls voluntary muscle movements
- e.g. waving, chewing,
swallowing, movement
- Coordinates movements of the body
- Deals with external stimulus
- Collects information from sensory organs
- Autonomic Nervous System
- Sympathetic Nervous System
- Fight or flight
- Speeds up body functions and makes them work
more efficiently - its in control when you are active
- Parasympathetic Nervous System
- Rest and digest
- Slows down body functions - is in
control when you're resting
- Controls involuntary action which maintain
homeostasis e.g. digestion, heartbeat
- Makes up all nerves outside the CNS
- Carries information to and from CNS to the rest of the body
- Neurons
- Different types of
neurons
- Motor Neurons
- Carries messages to the effector (glands and
muscles) which creates the response
- Sensory
Neurons
- Carries messages from the sense
organs to the brain and spinal cord.
- Inter/ connector neurons
- Makes connections in nerve pathways
- Parts of a
neuron
- Dendrites
- Receives information from other cells
- Cell
body
- Contains nucleus, vacuole, mitochondria etc.
- Axon
- Transfers the electrical messages
- Myelin
Sheath
- Insulates the electrical signal in the axon and protects the nerve cells in
the axon - it is made of fat and increases the speed of the nerve impulse
- Axon
terminal
- Passes the message/ signal onto the synaptic cleft
- Synaptic
cleft
- Neurotransmitters transmit the
electrical signal across the gap
- Neurons have a fast electrical
signal called a "nerve impulse"
- Endocrine System
- Bloodstream
- Produces hormones in endocrine glands
- Hormones bind to specific receptors on cells
- Those cells are called target
cells
- Immunity
- Pathogens
- Types of pathogens
- Bacteria
- Fungi
- Viruses
- Protozoa
- Worms/ parasites
- Cause sickness - are infectious
- Transmission
- Direct contact
- e.g. Coughing/ sneezing/touching
someone when you are sick
- Indirect contact
- e.g. Sick person touching a door handle and
then someone else touching the handle
- Contamination
- Food poisoning
- Contaminated water
- Immunisations
- People get injections that hold
deformed or dead pathogens
- The immune response to pathogens
is faster after immunisations
- The three lines of defense
- Third line (specific)
- Specific
- Lymphadic system
- Lymphocytes (T and B cells)
- Located in lymph nodes
- T and B cells are activated by an antigen
- T cells kill the infection
- B cells release antibodies
- The T and B cells clone themselves to
help kill the infection - thus the lymph
nodes becoming swollen
- Antibodies are released
- The antibodies stick to the antigens and
clump bacteria together for the
macrophages to eat
- After this the T and B cells form memory
cells - these remember how to fight the
pathogen the next time it infects the body
- Second line (innate)
- Non - specific
- Inflammation
- Neutrophils and macrophages
- They form pus when they die
- They engulf bacteria, break
them down and kill them
- First line
- Purpose is to stop pathogens
getting into the body
- Non - specific
- Parts of the body in the first line
- Saliva
- Skin
- Eyelashes
- Mucus
- Stomach acid
- Tears
- Respiratory
System
- Diffusion
- The movement of particles from a high concentration to a low concentration.
- Breathing
- Gas
exchange
- Alveoli - they are located on the lungs and have
many features that help with diffusion
- Only one cell
thick
- Covered in
capillaries
- Moist membranes so gases can dissolve more easily
- Moves oxygen into the blood and takes
CO2 (carbon dioxide) out of the blood
- Digestive System
- Includes breakdown of lipids and
fats
- The characteristics and features of villi help with efficient diffusion of
nutrients
- The nutrients - proteins, glucose and lipids - then go to the
bloodstream
- Only one cell thick
- Surrounded by blood capillaries
- They are located in the small
intestine
- Villi have micro- projections on them that allow a bigger surface
area
- Breaking down
foods
- Mechanical
Breakdown
- Chewing
- Chemical
Breakdown
- Enzymes
- Metabolism
- Chemical
processes
- Cellular
respiration
- Glucose + oxygen (O2) = carbon dioxide (CO2) + energy + water
(H2O)