How many chambers does the heart have?
4
This type of blood vessel takes blood away from the heart.
What is the organ the pumps blood throughout your body?
the heart
This is how long it takes for blood to make a round trip through your body.
about 30 seconds
The top 2 chambers are called what?
atrium
This type of blood vessel takes blood back to the heart.
Veins
These carry oxygen in your blood throughout the body.
red blood cells
Your heart is about what size? (compared to a body part)
the size of you fist
The bottom 2 chambers are called what?
Ventricles
These are the smallest of all the blood vessels and are only one cell thick.
Capillaries
platelets
The sound your heart makes when it beats. (What Bill Nye kept describing it as)
Lub Dub
The very large artery at the top of the heart is?
the aorta
True or False: Blood that does not have oxygen is actually blue?
False
This component of your blood is what helps to fight of illness?
white blood cells
What is the protein that is in red blood cells that holds onto the oxygen that is being transported.
hemoglobin
Name either of the 2 valves that were in our heart diagram in our notes.
Pulmonary Valve or the Aortic Valve
Your heart has to work harder to deliver oxygen and nutrients around your body.
Also a term for a very hot gas, this substance makes up the largest amount of your blood and carries all the other components.
plasma
What are the 3 things that are transported by the circulatory system? (Must name all 3)
nutrients, oxygen, and waste