Animal Bodies

2. state of steady internal, physical, and chemical conditions maintained by living organisms
3. Smallest building blocks of life.
6. a type of cell that provides physical and chemical support to neurons and maintain their environment
7. state of decreased physiological activity in an animal, usually marked by a reduced metabolic rate (short period)
9. hormone, also known as epinephrine, produced by adrenal glands
10. an animal that is dependent on or capable of the internal generation of heat (mammal)
12. type of connective tissue where plasma creates the extracellular matrix
14. type of epithelial tissue that is also called “scaly” tissue, can be found on capillaries and is flat

1. type of tissue that covers our body, organs, and body cavities
2. a state of winter dormancy in some animals, in which normal annual rhythms slow metabolic rate (seasonal)
4. an animal that is dependent on external sources of body heat (reptiles)
5. muscle multi-nucleated type of muscle
8. __________structures are features of different species that are similar in function but not necessarily in structure.
11. the net movement of anything generally from a region of higher concentration to a region of lower concentration
13. information messengers in the nervous system