ATI TEAS EXAM STUDY GUIDE UPDATED 2020 / 2021 (30 SECTIONS)

ATI TEAS PRACTICE 1 STUDY GUIDE 

 

 

CONTENTS

1.    READING.

2.    SCIENCE QUESTIONS

3.    GENERAL ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY

4.    RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

5.    CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM

6.    GI SYSTEM

7.    NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEM

8.    REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM

9.    INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM

10. ENDOCRINE SYSTEM

11. GENITOURINARY SYSTEM

12. IMMUNE SYSTEM

13. SKELETAL SYSTEM

14. BIOLOGICAL MICROMOLECULES

15. CHROMOSOMES, GENES, DNA

16. MENDELIAN GENETICS (LAWS OF HEREDITY)

17. THE STRUCTURE OF ATOMS

18. PROPERTIES OF SUBSTANCES

19. STATES OF MATTER

20. CHEMICAL REACTIONS

21. SCIENTIFIC MEASUREMENTS

22. CONSTRUCTING CONCLUSIONS FROM DATA

23. CAUSE AND EFFECT, HYPOTHESIS AND EXPERIMENTATION

24. MATHS

25. ROOT WORDS

26. PREFIXES

27. SUFFIXES

28. ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY

29. LIFE AND PHYSICAL SCIENCES

30. SCIENTIFIC REASONING

 

 

READING

 

1.    Paraphrasing

ANSWER: Explain an idea in different words

 

2.    Controlling idea

ANSWER: The main idea of a text

 

3.    Topic

ANSWER: Subject of a text. Answers the question, who or what is the paragraph about? A noun

 

4.    Key point

ANSWER: Provides support to the controlling idea

 

5.    Explicit terms

ANSWER: Clearly stated information

 

6.    Implicit terms

ANSWER: Information based on something not clearly stated. Sometimes not fact, an opinion. Adjectives and adverbs.

 

7.    Anecdote

ANSWER: A short story they illustrate a concept but is not the main idea

 

8.    Delineate

ANSWER: Describe precisely

 

9.    Chronology

ANSWER: Tells WHEN something happened

 

10. Sequential

ANSWER: Tells the order of things

 

11. Modes of writing

ANSWER: Forms of writing (persuasive, expository, narrative)

 

12. Persuasive writing

ANSWER: Intending to make the reader believe in an idea. Writing that convinced the reader.

 

13. Expository writing

ANSWER: Writing that informs, tells how to, or teaches.

 

14. Narrative writing

ANSWER: Writing that tells a story and often uses sensory details.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SCIENCE QUESTIONS

 

1.    Which cells excrete pepsinogen?

ANSWER: Chief cells of the stomach

 

2.    Which organ is responsible for a majority of digestion?

ANSWER: Small intestine

 

 

3.    Sensory neurons

ANSWER: Carry an afferent impulse- to the brain

 

4.    Contraction occurs when

ANSWER: Thin actin filaments slide past thicker myosin filaments causing the sarcomere unit to shorten

 

5.    Which nerve structure transmits impulses to other cells?

ANSWER: Axon

 

6.    Inflammation

ANSWER: Innate immune response resulting in redness, swelling, heat, and pain.

 

7.    The endocrine system produces what response?

ANSWER: Slow initiating, prolonged response on other body systems

 

8.    What is the integration center between endocrine and nervous system?

ANSWER: Hypothalamus

 

9.    Exocrine glands

ANSWER: Release chemicals to outside the body or to another surface within the body

 

10. Endocrine glands

ANSWER: Releases chemical substances directly into the bloodstream or tissues of the body

 

11. What gland has an exocrine function and aids in blood glucose regulation?

ANSWER: Pancreas 

12. Epidermis

ANSWER: Outer layer of the skin made of epithelial tissue

 

13. Dermis

ANSWER: Middle layer of skin made of connective tissue

 

14. Hypodermis

ANSWER: Lowest layer of skin

 

15. Osteoclast

ANSWER: Bone cells that perform calcium mineral reabsorption

 

16. Osteoblasts

ANSWER: Synthesize bones, the secretions allow for mineralization

 

17. Osteocytes

ANSWER: Star shaped bone cell. Maintains structure. Senses physical stress.

 

18. Osteons

ANSWER: Cylindrical structures comprised of compact bone tissue that surround the haversian canal

 

19. Yellow marrow is located in?

ANSWER: Long adult bones in the Medullary cavity

 

20. Spongy bone

ANSWER: Fewer osteons than compact bone, where red bone is formed.

 

21. B-cells

ANSWER: Lymphocytes that make antibodies in response to antigens.

 

22. Helper T cells

ANSWER: Secrete interleukins that trigger the action of other cells.

 

23. Cytotoxin T cell

ANSWER: Attacks foreign cells, activated by interleukins

 

24. Macrophage

ANSWER: Large white blood cells that ingest foreign materials

 

25. Blastophil

ANSWER: Releases histamine

 

26. Median/Sagittal/Midsagittal plane

ANSWER: Plane that passes through the middle of the body separating the left and right

 

27. Parasagittal plane

ANSWER: A plane parallel to the Sagittal plane

 

28. Transverse plane

ANSWER: Located at midsection, separates superior and inferior sections

 

29. Coronal plane

ANSWER: Separates the anterior and posterior sections

 

30. Ribosomes

ANSWER: Facilitate protein synthesis in the rough endoplasmic reticulum  

31. Emphysema

ANSWER: Increased residual volume due to decreased elasticity

 

32. Immunoglobulin

ANSWER: Antibody

 

33. Interferon

ANSWER: Protein secreted by leukocytes when they are infected with viruses

 

34. Luteinizing hormone

ANSWER: Controls production of testosterone

 

35. Gametes

ANSWER: Sperm

 

36. Proximal convoluted tube

ANSWER: First locations where glucose and other substances are reabsorbed into the blood

 

37. Glomerulus

ANSWER: Capillaries where blood pressure pushes water, salt, glucose, amino acids, and urea from the blood.

 

38. Bowman’s capsule

ANSWER: Cup shaped structure that surrounds and collects filtrate from the glomerulus

 

39. Renal pelvis

ANSWER: Center of the kidney where urine collects before moving to the ureter  

 

40. Mendel's law of segregation

ANSWER: His first law of inheritance, each gamete carries only one allele for each gene

 

41. Amino acids

ANSWER: Monomer of protein

 

42. Nucleotides

ANSWER: The monomer of DNA, one type of nucleic acid

 

43. Dependent variable

ANSWER: Variable being measured in an experiment, effect

 

44. Motor neurons

ANSWER: Carry efferent impulse- away from the central nervous systemin order to initiate an action.

 

 

GENERAL ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY

 

1.    3 main parts of a cell

ANSWER:

                     I.        Plasma membrane

                    II.        Cytoplasm

                  III.        Nucleus

 

2.    Organelles

ANSWER: Structures within a cell that carry out metabolic or cellular functions

 

3.    Plasma membrane is made of

ANSWER: Phospholipid bilayer embedded with proteins. The proteins make it selectively permeable

 

4.    Proteins

ANSWER: Made of amino acids joined by peptide bonds

 

5.    Cytoplasm

ANSWER: Semi-fluid substance inside a cell membrane

 

6.    Nucleus

ANSWER: Surrounded by a double membrane of DNA, regulates mitosis

 

7.    Mitosis

ANSWER: Process of cellular division in eukaryotes.

 

8.    Rough endoplasmic reticulum

ANSWER: Surrounds the outer nucleus, produces protein through ribosomes

 

9.    Smooth endoplasmic reticulum

ANSWER: Produces and stores lipids

 

10. Golgi complex

ANSWER: Receives vessels of protein, modifies, repackages, and sends it to where it is needed. Also makes Digestive enzyme vessels called lysosomes.

 

11. Lysosomes

ANSWER: Powerful digestive enzymes necessary for cellular metabolism.

 

12. Mitochondria

ANSWER: The powerhouse of the cell, turns food we eat into ATP through cellular respiration 

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