Parts of the Circulatory System
What type of muscle is your heart made of?
Cardiac muscle
What type of blood vessel carries blood away from the heart?
Arteries
Which type of blood cell carries oxygen?
Red blood cells
Blood comes from the ________ and enters the ________ atrium.
body, right
What is the upper chamber of the heart that receives oxygenated blood from the lungs?
Left atrium
Blood carries __________ and __________ to the cells of the body.
Oxygen and nutrients
What type of blood vessel carries blood back to the heart?
Veins
Which type of blood cell fights infections?
White blood cells
Blood then passes through a ________, goes into the right ____________, and then goes to the _________.
valve, ventricle, lungs
What chamber pumps deoxygenated blood to the lungs so it can pick up oxygen?
What are the three parts of the circulatory system?
Heart, blood, and blood vessels
What type of blood vessel connects arteries to veins?
Capillaries
__________ blood cells do not have a nucleus, _________ blood cells do have a nucleus.
red, white
Which circulation moves blood between the heart and the lungs?
Pulmonary circulation
What is the thick wall that separates the left and right sides of the heart?
Septum
What blood has delivered its oxygen to the body's tissues and picked up carbon dioxide as a waste product?
Deoxygenated blood
What type of blood does the aorta carry?
Oxygenated blood
What gives blood its red color and provides the essential energy your cells need to function?
Hemoglobin
Which circulation supplies oxygen-rich blood to your whole body?
Systemic circulation
What chamber pumps oxygenated blood to the body?
Left ventricle
What are the four chambers of the heart?
Right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle
A doctor observes that blood is flowing back toward a patient's feet instead of returning efficiently to the heart. Which blood vessel structure is most likely not working properly?
Valves
New blood cells are produced in the _________ ____________.
Bones (bone marrow)
Blood delivers _________ and __________ to the body cels and takes ___________ ____________ and __________ away from your cells. Then it comes from the _________ and back to the right ___________.
food, oxygen, carbon dioxide, wastes, body, atrium
Arrange these chambers in the correct order as blood flows through the heart after returning from the body.
Right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle