Core Mechanics
Vitals
Components
Rules
Connections
100
Blood must go through the lungs and _______ oxygen.
What is "pick up?"
100
The number of compressions the heart makes per minute.
What is heart rate or pulse?
100
These are the three types of blood vessels.
What are arteries, veins, and capillaries?
100
When it is too cold out, we do this involuntarily in order to increase kinetic energy and warm up.
What is shiver?
100
The circulatory system must work with this system in order to maintain the right balances of gases in our bloodstream.
What is the Respiratory System?
200
Blood must stop by the lungs before it is pumped out by the heart and do this with carbon dioxide.
What is "drop off?"
200
This measures how many breaths one breathes each minute.
What is the Respiratory Rate?
200
The heart has this number of chambers.
What are four?
200
In order to maintain this, we sweat when our bodies get too hot.
What is homeostasis?
200
Once oxygen is taken out of the blood, it transfers through these to get to a vein.
What are capillaries?
300
When veins are heading back to the heart they carry these two things.
What are carbon dioxide and wastes?
300
A normal resting heart rate for a resting adult should be in this range.
What is between 60 - 80 bpm?
300
These tiny blood vessels allow for materials to transport from one location to another.
What are capillaries?
300
This chamber of the heart sends oxygenated blood to the body.
What is the left ventricle?
300
The left and the right chambers of the heart are divided by this wall.
What is the septum?
400
The heart doesn't choose to do pump. It is this kind of action.
What is involuntary?
400
The top number in the measurement of blood pressure is measured when the heart is doing this.
What is contracting?
400
These muscular flaps allow blood in the heart to move only in one direction.
What are valves?
400
When our heart rate increases, we need more of this in our muscles.
What is oxygen?
400
When we do not have enough oxygen in our blood our heart rate will increase, and so will this.
What is respiratory rate?
500
What is the MOST important core mechanic of the blood?
What is circulating?
500
This vital sign increases when the body is reacting to a bacterial or viral invasion.
What is body temperature?
500
This component of blood helps us our bodies create a scabs so that cuts do not kill us.
What are platelets?
500
The endocrine glands in our body secrete these chemical messengers into our blood.
What are hormones?
500
The circulatory system works together with this system in order to supply the body's cells with nutrients.
What is the Digestive System?
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