Circulatory System
Blood & Lymphatic System
Respiratory System
Blood vessels & Smoking
Miscellaneous
100
What are the 3 components of the circulatory system?
What is the heart, blood vessels, and blood.
100
What are the 3 components of the cellular portion of blood?
What are red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets.
100
What prevents food from entering your trachea?
What is the epiglottis.
100
What are the 3 types of blood vessels?
What are arteries, veins, and capillaries.
100
The 2 components of blood that make clotting possible.
What are plasma proteins, and platelets.
200
Name the thick layer of muscle in the walls of the heart.
What is the myocardium.
200
Blood is 90% water and 10% this...
What is dissolved gases, salts, nutrients, enzymes, hormones, waste products, and plasma proteins.
200
Tiny projections that sweep trapped particles and mucus away from the lungs.
What is cilia.
200
The smallest blood vessels found in the body.
What are capillaries.
200
What type of pressure involves the force of blood when the ventricles relax?
What is diastolic pressure.
300
Which circulation pathway involves blood moving from the heart to the lungs?
What is pulmonary circulation.
300
Type of protein that helps fight viral and bacterial infections.
What is globulin.
300
Structure at the top of the trachea that contains the vocal cords.
What is the larynx.
300
What term is given to the flaps of connective tissue that prevent blood from flowing backward in the heart.
What are valves.
300
Tiny air sacs where gas exchange occurs.
What is alveoli.
400
What happens to blood when it reaches the lungs?
What is carbon dioxide leaves the blood, and oxygen is absorbed.
400
What is hemoglobin?
What is an iron-containing protein that binds to oxygen in the lungs and transports it to tissues throughout the body.
400
The passageway between the pharynx and bronchi.
What is the trachea.
400
What are the 3 respiratory diseases caused by smoking?
What is chronic bronchitis, emphysema, and lung cancer.
400
A condition in which fatty deposits build up on the walls of the arteries is called.....
What is atherosclerosis.
500
Each heart contraction begins in a small group of cardiac muscles called....
What is sinoatrial, or SA node.
500
What is the function of the lymph nodes?
What is to act as filters, trap bacteria and other microorganisms that cause disease.
500
The large, flat muscle at the bottom of the chest cavity.
What is the diaphragm.
500
Why is carbon monoxide dangerous?
What is it blocks the transport of oxygen by hemoglobin, depriving the heart and other organs of the oxygen needed to function properly.
500
What happens when pressure in the chest cavity becomes greater than atmospheric pressure?
What is air rushes out of the lungs, and you exhale.
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