The Blood
This type of blood is yellowish and takes up 55% of your blood.
Plasma
The human heart has this many chambers
4 chambers
This type of blood vessel returns deoxygenated blood back to the heart
Veins
What is the gas/substance we exhale when we breathe out?
Carbon dioxide
Where is blood made in the body?
The bone marrow
This type of blood is not an actual cell but cell fragments that help stop bleeding in an injury
Platelets
The right side of the heart pumps blood to the _________________
Lungs
Arteries are made up of this, which makes them thicker and stronger to deliver oxygenated blood to the body
Smooth muscle
What is the name of the muscle that flattens and contracts to help us breathe?
Diaphragm
What connects bone to muscle?
Tendons
This is the part of the red blood cell that gives it its red color
Hemoglobin
Name at least two symptoms of a heart attack
Pain in chest, jaw, between shoulder blades, dizziness, nausea, shortness of breath, etc..
These are the tiny blood vessels where the exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen happen
Capillaries
Name three substances found in the nasal cavity/nose, trachea and bronchi that helps clean the air we breathe in.
Cilia, mucus, and hair
What is the brain of the cell called, what is the part that burns nutrients and make energy for the cell called?
The Nucleus and mitochondria
This type of blood cells help defend the body from germs and viruses
White blood cells (leukocytes)
This is what it is called when the heart completely stops due to a malfunction of the heart
Cardiac arrest
This artery takes blood from the heart and sends it out to the body
Aorta
Where does the great exchange happen- what part of the lungs is where carbon dioxide enters the lungs and oxygen enters into the bloodstream.
Alveoli
Name the three types of muscles found in the body?
This is what a red blood cell does NOT have that most other cells do have
A nucleus (or mitochondria)
The left ventricle
This artery takes blood from the heart and to the lungs to get oxygen
Pulmonary Artery
Name the flap that closes which helps to keep food and drink out of your respiratory system (trachea).
Epiglottis
What kinds of cells last 120 days or 4 months and what cells in the body last a lifetime?