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Parts of the Circulatory System
Blood Vessels
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Heart
100

What type of muscle is found in your artery?

smooth

100
What type of blood vessel carries blood away from the heart?
arteries
100
Which type of blood cell carries oxygen?
red blood cells
100

The _________ vena cava delivers blood from the lower part of the body to the heart

Inferior

100

Which two chambers does blood go into as it enters the heart?

Left and Right Atria

200
Blood carries __________ and __________ to the cells of the body.
food, oxygen
200
What type of blood vessel carries blood to the heart?
veins
200

Which type of blood cell fights infections?

white blood cells

200

The circulatory system is a _______ system, because blood does not _________ or _________ the system

closed, enter, leave

200

Blood leaving the right ventricle goes to the _______

lungs

300
What are the three parts of the circulatory system?
blood, blood vessels, heart
300
What type of blood vessel connects arteries to veins?
capillaries
300

how wide is a red blood cell in micrometers or how many red blood cells lined side by side would fit into 1 mm.

10  micrometers  or 100 rbcs would fit into 1 mm

300

The word Pulmonary suggests something related to the _____________

lungs

300

While in the _______, blood picks up __________ and gets rid of ___________ _____________.

lungs, oxygen, carbon dioxide

400
Blood carries __________ ____________ and ___________ away from the cells of the body.
carbon dioxide, wastes
400

which type of blood vessels have thin walls with valves.

veins

400

Red blood cells contain a chemical called ______________ that carries ___________ to your cells and carries ___________ ___________ away from your cells.

hemoglobin, oxygen, carbon dioxide

400

The liquid component of blood is called the  __________

plasma

400

The valve between the left atrium and the left ________ has ___ (number) flaps.  The flaps are prevented from being pushed back into the left atrium by chordae  _______  and __________   muscles.

ventricle, 2, tendinae, papillary

500
Name the four chambers of the heart:
left atrium, left ventricle, right atrium, right ventricle
500
_________ and __________ diffuse into your cells and __________ diffuse out of your cells in the blood vessels called _________________.
food, oxygen, wastes, capillaries
500

Why do red blood cells look like a flattened disc?

increase surface area for diffusion of gases

500

Name the four main blood types

A, B, AB, 0

500

The ______ valve prevents back flow of blood from the  _______   artery into the right ventricle.  It has ___ (number) flaps and is ____ supported by chords and muscles

pulmonary, pulmonary, 2, not