General Cardiovascular System
What is the main function of the cardiovascular system?
What is to transport blood, nutrients, and oxygen throughout the body?
What are the four main blood types
What are A, B, AB, and O?
What is the primary function of the respiratory system?
What is to facilitate gas exchange, providing oxygen and removing carbon dioxide?
What is the basic unit of muscle tissue?
What is a muscle fiber?
Name the two types of blood vessels.
What are arteries, veins?
What is the importance of knowing one's blood type?
What is to ensure safe blood transfusions?
Name three organs involved in the respiratory system
What are the nose, trachea, lungs, and diaphragm?
Name the three types of muscle tissue.
What are skeletal, smooth, and cardiac muscles?
What is the role of the heart in the cardiovascular system?
What is to pump blood throughout the body?
What is the Rh factor?
What is a protein that can be present on the surface of red blood cells?
What is the role of the diaphragm in breathing?
What is to contract and expand the thoracic cavity to allow air in and out of the lungs?
Which type of muscle is under voluntary control?
What is skeletal muscle?
How does exercise affect the cardiovascular system?
What is it increases heart rate and improves blood circulation?
What blood type can people with O+ blood get?
What is O+ and O-?
What muscle helps in the process of breathing by contracting and relaxing?
What is the diaphragm?
What is the term for the ability of a muscle to shorten and produce movement?
What is contraction?
Describe the pathway of blood flow through the heart.
What is blood flows from the body into the right atrium, then to the right ventricle, to the lungs, back to the left atrium, then to the left ventricle, and finally out to the body?
What type of blood can a person with AB- get?
What is AB-, A-, B-, and O-
What are the tiny air sacs in the lungs where gas exchange occurs called?
What are alveoli?
What is the largest muscle in the human body?
What is the gluteus maximus?