Cardiac Review

Question 1

What are the components of a circulatory system?

Answer 1

The Components of a Circulatory System

• Heart
• Blood
• Vessels
  
  • That transport the blood throughout the body

Question 2

What is an open circulatory system?

Answer 2

Open Circulatory System

• Lacks a continous circuit of vessels
• The heart pumps blood through short vessels that empty into open areas in th body where materials are exchanged with surrounding cells
• A second set of vessels pick up and return the blood

Question 3

What is a closed circulatory system?

Answer 3

Closed Circulatory System

• Closed circulatory systems have a continous vessel system through the organism
• Nutrients are exchanged with the tissue across the vessel walls

Question 4

What is the general structure of the heart?

Answer 4

General Heart Structure

• The heart has four chambers
• The chambers separates the oxygenated and non-oxygenated blood
• The two ventricles of the four-chamber heart pumps blood to either the body (systemic/from the left side) or the lungs (pulmonary/the right side)