Blood Flow
Heart Facts
Blood Vessels
Components of Blood
Parts of the Heart
100
The chamber that oxygenated blood enters, when it first returns from the lungs.
What is the Left Atrium
100
The heart and blood vessels have these to keep blood flowing in one direction.
What are valves?
100
Name the three types of blood vessels.
What are Arteries, Veins & Capillaries.
100
What are the four main components that make up your blood?
Platelets, Plasma, Red Blood Cells, White Blood Cells
100
What are the receiving chambers of the heart?
The Atria
200
The largest Artery that distributes blood to the body.
What is the Aorta?
200
A healthy heart weighs less than _________ lb/s.
Less than 1 lb
200
Describe three things you know about Arteries:
What is they have to be thick and strong to withhold high blood pressure, they are the largest blood vessels, their main role is to carry blood away from the heart.
200
What is the main role of Red Blood Cells?
Transport Oxygen to the cells of your body and remove carbon diozide.
200
The pumping chambers of the heart are called....
Ventricles
300
The muscular wall that prevents oxygenated and deoxygenated blood from mixing.
What is the Septum
300
The heart is located where in the body?
What is in the middle of your chest, centered slightly to the left.
300
Describe 2 things you know about veins.
What is they are thinner and more flexible, they carry blood back to the heart.
300
What do Platelets do?
They are responsible for blood clotting.
300
The main role of the VENA CAVAS is to...
Transport deoxygenated blood back to the heart, so that it can be pumped to the lungs.
400
The pumping chamber with the THICKEST muscular wall.
What is the LEFT ventricle.
400
3 ways to maintain a healthy heart:
What is regular exercise, healthy diet & avoiding stress, not smoking...etc.
400
How to Capillaries assist your blood in recieving oxygen?
What is Capillaries are very THIN walled blood vessels that wrap around your lungs and allow oxygen from your lungs to diffuse directly into your blood stream
400
Why are white blood cells so important?
They combat bacteria and help keep your body healthy.
400
The valve located between the Left Atrium and Left Ventricle is called the ...
Mitral valve
500
Desribe the path of blood through the body, using the following words: Right/left Ventricle's & Atirums, Pulmonary Arteries, Pulmonary Veins, Aorta, Superior/Inferior Vena Cava, Lungs, Body, Oxygenated & Deoxygenated Blood.
The class & Ms. Imrie will decide if answer is detailed enough.
500
Pig hearts are used for dissections because...
What is they are very similiar in size and function to a human heart.
500
Which blood vessel connects to the right Ventricle.
What is the Pulmonary Artery.
500
What is the main role of the Plasma?
Transports the red, white blood cells and the platelets.
500
The blood vessel that is responsible for transporting oxygenated blood to the heart from the lungs is called the...
Pulmonary Veins
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