Blood Pathway
This chamber of the heart receives deoxygenated blood from the body.
What is the right atrium?
These vessels carry blood away from the heart.
Answer: What are arteries?
The cells responsible for carrying oxygen.
Answer: What are red blood cells (erythrocytes)?
This side of the heart pumps blood to the lungs.
Answer: What is the right side?
Is the name of the muscular part of the heart.
Answer: What is Myocardium?
Blood leaving the right ventricle travels through this blood vessel to reach the lungs.
What is the pulmonary artery?
Tiny vessels where exchange of oxygen, nutrients, and waste occurs.
Answer: What are capillaries?
Cells that fight infection in the body.
Answer: What are white blood cells (leukocytes)?
The blood circulation is unidirectional, thanks to the __________that prevent its back flow.
Answer: What are valves?
Pulmonary circulation moves blood between the heart and this organ.
Answer: What are the lungs?
Oxygenated blood returns from the lungs to the heart via this blood vessel.
Answer: What is the pulmonary veins?
These vessels return blood to the heart.
Answer: What are veins?
These cells help blood clot.
Answer: What are platelets?
Valves prevent this in the heart.
What is backflow of blood?
The systemic circulation carries blood between the heart and ________________.
Answer: What is the body
After leaving the left ventricle, blood enters this largest artery in the body.
Answer: What is the aorta?
This blood vessel carries blood from the lower body to the heart.
Answer: What is the inferior vena cava?
The liquid portion of blood that carries nutrients, hormones, and waste.
Answer: What is plasma?
The valves on the right side of the heart are:
Answer: What are the pulmonary valve and tricuspid valve?
Is the normal blood pressure.
Answer: What is 120/80?
X2!!
Name the full path of blood circulation starting from the right atrium and ending back there. (chambers and blood vessels)
Answer: What is: right atrium → right ventricle → pulmonary artery → lungs → pulmonary vein → left atrium → left ventricle → aorta → body → superior/inferior vena cava → right atrium?
These blood vessel carries oxygenated blood from the hearth to the rest of the body.
Answer: What is Aorta?
This protein in red blood cells binds oxygen.
Answer: What is hemoglobin?
The strings in the ventricles observed in the pig heart, pull the________________
Answer: What is the valves of the heart?
Coronary arteries supply this organ with oxygen-rich blood.
Answer: What is the heart?