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Category 1: Blood Pathway
Category 2: Blood Vessels
Category 3: Components of Blood
Category 4: Heart and Circulation Facts
Category 5: Blood Circulation Trivia
100

This chamber of the heart receives deoxygenated blood from the body.

What is the right atrium?

100

These vessels carry blood away from the heart.

Answer: What are arteries?

100

The red cells responsible for carrying oxygen.

Answer: What are red blood cells (erythrocytes)?

100
  • This side of the heart pumps blood to the lungs.

  • Answer: What is the right side?
100
  •  Blood that is oxygen rich is called this.

  • Answer: What is oxygenated blood?

200

Blood leaving the right ventricle travels through this artery to reach the lungs.

What is the pulmonary artery?

200
  • Tiny vessels where exchange of oxygen, nutrients, and waste occurs.

  • Answer: What are capillaries?
200

Cells that fight infection in the body.

Answer: What are white blood cells (leukocytes)?

200
  • $200: The blood circulation is _______, thanks to the valves that prevent its back flow.

  • Answer: What is unidirectional?

200
  • $200: poor.oxygen blodd is called this.

  • Answer: What is deoxygenated blood?

300

Oxygenated blood returns from the lungs to the heart via this vessel.

Answer: What is the pulmonary vein?

300
  • These vessels return blood to the heart.

  • Answer: What are veins?
300

These fragments help blood clot.

Answer: What are platelets?

300
  • $300: Valves prevent this in the heart.

  • Answer: What is backflow of blood?

300
  • $300: The systemic circulation carries blood between the heart and ________________.

  • Answer: What is the body
400

After leaving the left ventricle, blood enters this largest artery in the body.

Answer: What is the aorta?

400

 This vein carries blood from the lower body to the heart.

  • Answer: What is the inferior vena cava?
400

The liquid portion of blood that carries nutrients, hormones, and waste.

Answer: What is plasma?

400
  • $400: The valves on the right side of the heart are:

  • Answer: What are the pulmonic valve and tricuspid valve?
400
  • $400: Pulmonary circulation moves blood between the heart and this organ.

  • Answer: What are the lungs?

500

Name the full path of blood circulation starting from the right atrium and ending back there.

Answer: What is: right atrium → right ventricle → pulmonary artery → lungs → pulmonary vein → left atrium → left ventricle → aorta → body → superior/inferior vena cava → right atrium?

500

____________ have thick walls to handle toxygenated blood.

Answer: What is arteries?

500

This protein in blood allows hemostasis

Answer: What is platelet?

500
  • $500: The strings in the ventricles observed in the pig heart, pull the__________________________

Answer: What is the valves of the heart?

500
  • $500: Coronary arteries supply this organ with oxygen-rich blood.

Answer: What is the heart?