Blood Vessels
What is artery?
Chambers that receive blood entering the heart
What is atrium?
These cells help protect the body against disease and foreign substances
What are white blood cells?
Side of the heart that receives deoxygenated blood
What is right side?
What is oxygen?
Vessels that carry blood to the heart
What is vein?
Chamber that pumps blood from the heart to the rest of the body
What are ventricles?
Cells that carry oxygen from the lungs to the body
Side of the heart that receives oxygenated blood
What is left side?
Waste gas that is transported from the muscles to the lungs
What is carbon dioxide?
The tiny blood vessels that perform gas exchange
What is capillaries?
These keep blood from moving back into the atria when the ventricles contract
What are valves?
Liquid part of the blood
What is plasma?
This blood vessel carries blood from the heart to the lungs
What is pulmonary artery?
This system works closely with the circulatory system to help provide the body with oxygen
What is respiratory system?
Largest Artery
What is aorta?
Blood enters the right atrium through two of these
What is vena cava?
Pieces of cells that start the process of blood clotting
What are platelets?
This is the correct order for the flow of blood through the heart:
left ventricle, pulmonary vein, right atrium, left atrium, pulmonary artery, right ventricle
What is right atrium, right ventricle, pulmonary artery, pulmonary vein, left atrium, left ventricle?
The heart is made up of this type of muscle
What is cardiac muscle?
This vein is the only one to carry oxygenated blood
What is pulmonary vein?
Total number of chambers in the heart
What is 4?
What is stroke?
These are the four valves that are found in the heart
What is tricuspid valve, pulmonary valve, mitral valve and aortic valve?
This organelle is found in high quantities in heart cells
What is mitochondria?