Blood Vessels
A Busy Pump
Blood
The Heart
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100
These are the three kinds of blood vessels.
What are arteries, veins, and capillaries?
100
This is a hollow muscle that pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
100
They fight infection and disease.
What are white blood cells?
100
This muscular wall divides the two sides of the heart.
What is the septum?
100
This is where the blood travels in order to get oxygen.
What are the lungs?
200
These blood vessels carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
200
This is the size and weight of your heart.
What weighs about nine oz. and is about the size of your fist?
200
This makes your blood clot.
What are platelets?
200
The heart works without you having to think about it because it is this type of muscle.
What is an involuntary muscle?
200
They are the great veins located on the right side of the heart that pump blood to the lungs.
What are the inferior and superior venae cavae?
300
These tiny blood vessels connect veins to arteries.
What are capillaries?
300
They are the four chambers of your heart.
What are the left and right ventricles and atria?
300
This is the liquid part of your blood.
What is plasma?
300
They move to control the flow of blood through the heart.
What are the valves?
300
Blood travels to the bottom half of the body through this part of the heart.
What is the descending aorta?
400
These blood vessels carry blood to the heart.
What are veins?
400
This is a curved blood vessel that is the main artery of the body.
What is the aorta (aortic arch)?
400
This is the regular beating of the arteries.
What is your pulse?
400
This is the covering that keeps the heart from rubbing against your lungs and chest wall.
What is the pericardium?
400
On average, this is how many times a minute the heart beats in an adult.
What is seventy times a minute?
500
These blood vessels carry blood, rich with oxygen and nutrients.
What are arteries?
500
They are the names of the four valves of your heart.
What are the Tricuspid, Pulmonary, Aortic and Mitral (Bicuspid) valves?
500
This is about how much blood is in your body.
What is nine pints?
500
These structures carry oxygen-poor blood from the heart to the lungs.
What are the pulmonary arteries?
500
The heart is located here.
What is between the lungs and behind the rib cage?
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