Parts of the Heart
Deoxygenated blood travels to this through the vena cava
What is the right atrium?
Where does oxygen-poor blood travels first?
right atrium
Carries blood from the capillaries back to the heart.
What are veins?
Carries the oxygen
Forces the blood out of the aorta.
What is left ventricle?
After it goes to the right atrium, where next?
the right ventricle
Smallest blood vessels that transport blood, nutrients, and oxygen.
What is capillary?
Fight infections
What are white blood cells?
Pumps the blood to the left ventricle.
What is left atrium.
Where does it go after the right ventricle?
to the lungs (now oxygen-rich)
Carries the blood from the left side of the heart through its many branches.
What is artery?
Stops bleeding.
What are platelets?
Pumps oxygen poor blood to the lungs.
What is the right ventricle?
After the blood has became oxygen-rich it goes to?
left atrium.
Tiny vessels that get bigger as they get closer to the heart.
What is venule?
Carries nutrients, hormones, and proteins.
What is Plasma?
The largest artery in the body.
What is aorta?
Where does the blood go last to be sent to all regions of the body?
left ventricle
Flexible vessels that change shape to maintain body's blood pressure.
What is arteriole?
What layer is 92% water, 7% food particles, and 1% vitamin and electrolytes.
What is Plasma