Heart Chambers
What is the first chamber that blood travels through?
Right Atrium
List the 4 components of blood
Read blood cells
White blood cells
Platelets
Plasma
Which vessels take blood away from the heart?
arteries
About how big is a human heart?
The size of our fist.
Valves
What is the job of the red blood cells?
Carry oxygen to the rest of the body and carry carbon dioxide to the lungs to exhale.
Which vessels take blood back to the heart?
Veins
What do valves do for the heart?
Stop things from leaking or backflowing.
What is the last chamber the blood travels through before heading out to the rest of the body?
Left Ventricle
What is the job of the white blood cells?
Fighting illness and bacteria. These are the ambulence cells.
What happens in the capillaries?
Gas exchange
Why are arteries often coloured red in diagrams and veins are coloured blue?
Oxygen vs. no oxygen
What are we hearing when we hear our heart beat? What is our heart doing?
Pumping blood.
What are some of the blood types?
A
B
O
AB
Which is the biggest vein in our bodies?
Vena Cava
Why is blood called the river of life?
Which two chambers have doxygenated blood?
The right atrium and ventricle.
What do platelets do for us?
They clot our blood.
What is the largest artery in our body? Where is it - how do you know?
Aorta. In between our heart and our neck, I know this because we can feel our pulse through it.
What protein is attached to our red blood cells? What does it do for us?
Hemoglobin. It carries oxygen.