Year 12 · WACE / Human Biology
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- Write one prompt per card. Use definitions, explanations or examples from your current topic.
- Answer aloud before turning the card. Split a card if it asks for several unrelated facts.
- Set aside missed cards and revisit them in a later session.
Recall topics
- How does endocrine secretion differ from secretion through a duct?
- Why does a circulating hormone affect only particular target cells?
- Which endocrine structures must you locate in the Human Biology course?
- How do pancreatic insulin and glucagon differ in their overall effects?
- How does thyroid hormone contribute to homeostatic regulation?
- What is the homeostatic role of parathyroid hormone?
- Why must adrenal cortex and adrenal medulla be distinguished?
- How should a gland–hormone–target answer be organised?
- How does the hypothalamus control the anterior pituitary?
- Where is ADH made, and how does it reach its release site?
- What distinguishes the neural and vascular hypothalamus–pituitary links?
- How do lipid-soluble hormones generally act on target cells?
- Why do water-soluble hormones generally use membrane receptors?
- What is a secondary messenger in hormonal signalling?
- How can a small hormonal signal produce a larger cellular response?
- What does negative feedback mean in a hypothalamic–pituitary axis?
- Which structures form the central nervous system?
- What is included in the peripheral nervous system?
- How do afferent and efferent pathways differ?
- What distinguishes somatic motor control from autonomic control?
- What is a typical effect of sympathetic activation?
- How does parasympathetic activity relate to sympathetic activity?
- Why are nervous-system divisions not one interchangeable list?
- Classify a signal from a spinal motor neuron to skeletal muscle.
- What is a principal role of the cerebrum?
- How does the cerebellum contribute to movement?
- Which automatic functions are associated with the medulla oblongata?
- Why is the hypothalamus important to both neural and hormonal regulation?
- What does the corpus callosum connect?
- How does the spinal cord contribute beyond carrying messages?
- How do bone, meninges and cerebrospinal fluid protect central nervous tissue?
- How should a brain-region function be inferred from a supplied observation?
- What is the role of a sensory receptor?
- What do thermoreceptors detect?
- How do osmoreceptors contribute to water-balance regulation?
- What kinds of changes can chemoreceptors detect?
- How do touch receptors and pain receptors differ functionally?
- What sequence describes a typical spinal withdrawal reflex?
- Why can a withdrawal reflex begin before conscious awareness?
- What would a break in the sensory limb of a reflex arc prevent?
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