Veins
True or False, Veins help blood flow back to the heart.
True
True or False, Arteries help blood flow back to the heart.
False
The blood vessels that capillaries connect.
What are veins and arteries?
There are four of these which make up the heart.
What are chambers?
True or False, mammals and fish share the same type of circulatory system.
False
The pressure in which blood flows through veins.
What is lower?
True or False, blood flows through arteries at very low pressures.
False, high pressures
Blood flows through the tissues in capillaries at ____ pressures.
What is low?
The side of the heart that pumps oxygenated blood to the body.
The name of the type of circulatory system that can be found in mammals.
What is double circulation system?
Skeletal muscle groups and the downward gravitational pull are both things that affect _______________ in the veins.
What is blood flow?
The type of arteries that surround the heart.
What are coronary arteries?
The slower rate of blood flow through capillaries allows for the maximum _____________ of materials?
What is exchange?
The _______ (s) of the heart help prevent the backflow of blood.
What are valves?
The English physician accredited with the discovery of the modern-day circulatory system.
Who is William Harvey?
Veins pass through a lot of skeletal _______________ (s).
What are muscle groups?
Arteries contain ____________ & ______________ in order to assist in maintaining blood pressure between pump cycles.
What are muscle and elastic fibers?
The outer layer of capillaries.
What is the basement membrane?
The side of the heart that pumps deoxygenated blood to the lungs.
What is the right side?
Heart disease that occurs when blood clots block veins or arteries.
What is thrombosis?
The areas where veins collect blood in the body.
What are tissues?
The type of plaque that builds up in arteries and causes blood clots.
What is atherosclerotic plaque?
Features that allow for a maximum exchange of materials in capillaries.
What are pores and a permeable membrane?
The number of major parts the heart is broken up into including chambers and heart valves to name two.
What is 3?
The heart expels ____ quarts of blood each minute.
What is 5?