Parts of the Blood
Path of Blood Flow
Parts of the Heart
Blood Vessels
Heart Beat
100
This component makes up fifty-five percent of blood, and helps to transport nutrients, wastes, hormones, and dissolved gasses.
What is plasma.
100
Blood flows through the pulmonary artery to this location.
What are the lungs.
100
This compartment is the first location of deoxygenated blood in the heart.
What is the right atrium.
100
These blood vessels are the smallest of the three kinds of blood vessels.
What are capillaries.
100
This gives off the first electrical signal, triggering the contraction of the atria.
What is the sinoatrial node.
200
This component of blood has no nucleus and breaks down quickly.
What are platelets.
200
Oxygenated blood returns from the lungs to the heart, and flows into this compartment.
What is the left atrium.
200
This mass separates the right and left sides of the heart.
What is the septum.
200
This type of blood vessel has its own valves to assist in the direction of blood flow.
What are veins.
200
Located in the walls of the ventricles, these trigger the contraction of the ventricles.
What are the Purkinje fibres.
300
This is the respiratory pigment that is carries by red blood cells.
What is hemoglobin.
300
This is the last part of the heart that oxygenated blood passes through to get to the rest of the body.
What is the aorta.
300
These open to allow blood to be pumped out of the ventricles.
What are the semilunar valves.
300
Generally speaking, this kind of blood vessel transports oxygenated blood to different locations in the body.
What are arteries.
300
This is the stimulus that triggers a heart to beat.
What is an electrical signal.
400
These are the two locations from which platelets originate.
What are the lungs and red bone marrow.
400
When they are working properly, these ensure that blood flows in only one direction.
What are valves.
400
This is the number of valves within the heart.
What is the number four.
400
When blockages in arteries must be surgically treated, this procedure is used.
What is an angioplasty.
400
This is the name of the "bundle" of fibres that transport an electrical signal from the atrioventricular node to the Purkinjie fibres.
What is the Bundle of His
500
These are the three groups of leucocytes (white blood cells).
What are granulocytes, monocytes, and lymphocytes.
500
These are the means by which blood flows into the right atrium of the heart.
What are the superior vena cava and the inferior vena cava.
500
This area of the heart uses the most muscle because ____________________.
What is the left ventricle because it has to pump blood to the whole body.
500
This disorder can cause the complete blockage of arteries through the build-up of plaque.
What is arteriosclerosis.
500
This is the device that measures a heartbeat.
What is an electrocardiograph.
M
e
n
u