Open and Closed Systems
In this type of transport system, blood is pumped at a low pressure and is used primarily by smaller animals such as insects.
Open Circulatory System
What is the thickest kind of blood vessel?
Arteries
What do the lungs remove from the blood?
Carbon Dioxide
This tissue carries water and dissolved minerals from roots to leaves.
Xylem
Which element of blood is a biconcave disc shape
Red Blood Cells
Closed circulatory systems transport blood at _______ pressure
High
What is the name of the hole where blood travels through vessels?
Lumen
Which organ increases the amount of digestive products such as glucose and amino acids in the blood?
Small Intestine
These tubes carry sugars made in the leaves to the rest of the plant.
Phloem
Lymphocytes are a type of...
White blood cell
What is the name of the transport medium in insects?
Haemolymph
Which vessel type has the largest lumen?
Veins
What is the name of the waste product that are derived from amino acids and are removed by the kidneys?
Urea
Phloem moves sugars from _____ to ______
Source, Sink
What is blood mostly composed of?
Plasma
What is the other transport system that animals with closed systems have to transport interstitial fluid?
Lymphatic System
Which vessel transports blood at the lowest pressure?
Capillaries
Apart from urea, what are the 2 things the kidneys also regulate the levels of?
Water and Salts
The theory that explains the continuous flow of water and minerals from a plant's roots up to its leaves through the xylem is called the (3 words)
Transpiration Stream Theory
What two components of blood make up only 1% each of the total volume
White Blood Cells and Platelets
Haemolymph is a mixture of 2 things. What are they?
Blood and Interstitial Fluid
The thin, single-cell layer that lines the inside of all blood vessels.
Endothelium
The process in which amino acids are broken down into urea by the liver
Deamination
The theory of how phloem transport sugars around the body is called
Pressure Flow Theory
Platelets are also known as...
Thrombocytes