2017 Mod14

Question 1

Define the following terms:

A. Veins

Answer 1

Blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart

Question 2

B. Arteries

Answer 2

Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart

Question 3

C. Capillaries

Answer 3

Tiny, thin walled blood vessels that allow the exchange of gases and nutrients between the blood and cells and is located between arteries and veins

Question 4

What purpose do the Lungs serve?

Answer 4

They oxygenate the blood

Question 5

What purpose does the heart serve ?

Answer 5

It pumps the blood

Question 6

How many chambers are in the human heart? Name them

Answer 6

Four.

1= right atrium
2= left atrium
3= right ventricle
4= left ventricle

Question 7

What is special about a four chambered heart as compared to three chambered heart or two chambered heart?

Answer 7

Four chambered hearts are very efficient

Question 8

In what kind of blood vessels does the blood transfer oxygen to the cells and picks up waste

Answer 8

In the capillaries

Question 9

When deoxygenated blood is returning to the heart, into what chamber does it enter the heart

Answer 9

The right atrium

Question 10

After entering the heart, the deoxygenated blood is then transferred to a second chamber. What chamber is that?

Answer 10

The right ventricle

Question 11

When deoxygenated blood leaves the heart, where does it go?

Answer 11

The lungs

Question 12

When oxygenated blood comes into the heart, what chamber does it fill?

Answer 12

The left atrium

Question 13

Once the oxygenated blood is back in the heart, it is then transferred to another chamber. What chamber is this?

Answer 13

The left ventricle

Question 14

When oxygenated blood leaves the heart, through what artery does it first travel

Answer 14

The aorta

Question 15

Most veins carry what kind of blood? Are there any exceptions to this general rule

Answer 15

Deoxygenated. Yes

Question 16

Name three types of blood cells and their main job in the blood.

Answer 16

One red blood cells, they carry oxygen to the body’s muscles and organs.

2. White blood cells, they protect the body from disease.
3. Platelet, formed blood clots

Question 17

What makes up more than half of your blood?

Answer 17

Blood plasma

Question 18

What is hemoglobin and where is it found?

Answer 18

It is a protein in red blood cells

Question 19

Where are blood cells produced

Answer 19

In bone marrow

Question 20

What are alveoli? What happened in the alveoli

Answer 20

They are a little sacs in the lungs where oxygen is received by the blood

Question 21

What kind of blood vessels around the alveoli

Answer 21

Capillaries

Question 22

Where are bronchial tubes found, and what travels in them?

Answer 22

In the lungs, air/oxygen

Question 23

When you inhale, air travels through the following part of the respiratory system: pharynx, naval cavity, trachea, lyrics, alveoli, and bronchial tubes. List at these part in order in which inhaled air passes through them.

Answer 23

Nasal cavity, pharynx, lyrics , trachea, bronchial tubes, alveoli

Question 24

Which of the parts listed in question above contained the vocal cord?

Answer 24

The Larynx

Question 25

What controls the volume of the sound produced by the vocal cord? What controls the pitch of the sound produced

Answer 25

One how much air is passing through them

To their tightness

Question 26

A sample of fluid is taken from a tube with in a plant. If it is mostly water, which was it taken from: a xylem or a phloem tube.

Answer 26

A xylem tube