Biomechanics - Circulation Flashcards
What is an essential function of all organisms to allow for bodily functions to operate?
Organisms need to be able to obtain materials from and dispose of waste into the environment and do these for all cells in their body
What are the two methods of getting resources into and out of the body?
- Simple diffusion
- Circulatory system
What is simple diffusion? What kind of animals use these?
- All of the organisms cells are in direct contact with the environment allowing for substance to move in an out of the organisms by diffusion
- Small simple animals
What is a circulatory system? What kind of animal use these?
- Where the inputs and outputs of an organism and delivered to cells by an internal system and most of the cells are not directly exposed to the environment
- Larger more complex animals
What are the main components of a circulatory system?
- Central pump (e.g. heart)
- Circulating fluid (e.g. blood)
- System of vessels (e.g. blood vessels)
What are the two types of circulatory system?
- Open circulatory system
- Closed circulatory system
What is the simplest circulatory system? What kind of animal has this? How does it work? Why is it called open?
- Open circulatory system
- Invertebrates
- As the insect moves it create internal pressure difference ∴ aid the movement and diffusion of interstitial fluid
- There is no difference between blood and interstitial fluid
What is the more complicated circulatory system? What kind of animals has this? How does it work? Why is it called closed?
- Closed circulatory system
- Vertebrates
- Where a muscular pump pushes the blood around the body mechanically pumping the blood around the body
- The blood is separated from interstitial fluid as it is carried by blood vessels
What are the two kinds of closed circulatory system?
- Single circulatory system
- Double circulatory system
What is the single circulatory system? what animal is it found it?
- Where the heart consists of two chambers, a single atrium and ventricle, which then pumps blood through gill capillaries where O2 is absorbed and CO2 removed, then pumped around the rest of the body
- Fish
What is the double circulatory system? what animal is it found in?
- Where oxygen poor and oxygen rich blood are pumped by seperate sides of the heart into and out of the lungs
- Mammals
What is the main difference between single and double circulatory system?
Single pumps blood around the body using only one ventricle and atrium where O2/CO2 gets absorbed/removed from capillaries directly in contract with the enviro, Double pumps blood using two ventricles and atriums and O2/CO2 gets absorbed/removed from lungs
What is the structure of the human heart (double circulatory system) and the basic function of each part?
two upper atria (singular atrium) that receive blood and two lower ventricles that pump blood, right side receives/pumps O2 poor blood from body to lungs, left side receives/pumps O2 rich blood from lungs to body
What are atrioventricular valves?
valves that sallow blood to flow from atrium to ventricle but stop (normally) blood flowing back the other way
What operates in higher pressure, the atrium or ventricles? why?
Atrium because they only receive blood, not pump it
What is one way the valves are optimised to allow max blood flow?
Large valve size
What are the terms for the contraction and relaxation of the heart?
Contraction = systole Relaxation = diastole
What is the heart rate?
The number of beats per minute (e.g. pulse)