Circulatory And Respiratory System

Question 1

What are the five main functions of the circulatory system?

Answer 1

1. Maintaining body temperature
2. Fighting disease
3. Carrying chemicals
4. Carrying food, water, and oxygen
5. Removing waste from the cells

Question 2

Which direction do veins carry blood?

Answer 2

To the heart

Question 3

Which directions to arteries carry blood?

Answer 3

Away from the heart

Question 4

What is the purpose of the capillaries?

Answer 4

To allow gas exchange

Question 5

If I am a red blood cell in the Longs, where is my next stop?

Answer 5

Left atrium

Question 6

If I am a red blood cell in the body where is my next stop?

Answer 6

Right atrium

Question 7

If I’m a red blood cell in the right ventricle where is my next stop?

Answer 7

Lungs

Question 8

Where is the circulatory system get the oxygen it is responsible for delivering?

Answer 8

From the lungs

Question 9

Each upper chamber of the heart is called a/an

Answer 9

Atrium

Question 10

Each lower chamber of the heart is called a/an

Answer 10

Ventricle

Question 11

The left side of the heart pumps oxygen rich blood to the______ while the right side of the heart pumps oxygen poor blood to the______.

Answer 11

Body

Lungs

Question 12

Where does the exchange of blood and oxygen take place in the lungs?

Answer 12

Capillaries

Question 13

What are the four components to Blood?

Answer 13

1. Platelets
2. Plasma
3. Red blood cells
4. White blood cells

Question 14

What do red blood cells do?

Answer 14

Red blood cells transport oxygen and carbon dioxide to and from the cells.

Question 15

What do white blood cells do?

Answer 15

White blood cells identify and destroy pathogens(disease causing microorganisms)

Question 16

What do platelets do?

Answer 16

Platelets are involved in blood clotting and regeneration of connective tissue.

Question 17

What part of Blood with Cheerios represent and why?

Answer 17

Red blood cells because they are similar in shape and size.

Question 18

Your body needs oxygen in order to get______ from the food you eat.

Answer 18

Energy

Question 19

There are six places oxygen needs to travel through on its way through the respiratory system to the circulatory system lets them in order.

Answer 19

1. Nasal cavity
2. Pharynx
3. Trachea
4. Bronchi
5. Bronchioles
6. Alvioli

Question 20

What is the purpose of the bronchi?

Answer 20

To lead the oxygen into the lungs.

Question 21

What is the purpose of the alveoli?

Answer 21

To exchange the oxygen and carbon dioxide.

Question 22

What does the nasal cavity do?

Answer 22

Filters and warms the air that goes to the lungs.

Question 23

What is another name for your windpipe?

Answer 23

Trachea

Question 24

What is another name for the throat?

Answer 24

Pharynx

Question 25

And moves into the lungs when the diaphragm muscle does what?

Answer 25

Goes down or contracts.

Question 26

What are the alveoli surrounded by that lets the oxygen into the blood?

Answer 26

Capillaries

Question 27

Describe how the respiratory and circulatory system are connected.

Answer 27

The respiratory system is responsible for getting oxygen into the body in the circular system takes the oxygen and distributes it.

Question 28

What does the circulatory system consist of?

Answer 28

Your heart, blood, and blood vessels, arteries, veins, and capillaries.

Question 29

What does the atrium do?

Answer 29

The atrium transports the blood and nutrients to the cells.

Question 30

What does the ventricle do?

Answer 30

The ventricle pushes the blood out of the heart.

Question 31

Describe how the heart works in three phases

Answer 31

1. blood enters the atria and The left atrium receives oxygen rich blood. The left atrium receives oxygen poor blood. 2. What is squeezed into ventricles 3. Ventricles push blood out of the heart. Right goes into the lungs left goes to the rest of the body.

Question 32

Describe the first loop of blood flow.

Answer 32

The right ventricle pumps oxygen poor blood into the lungs. The Blood takes up oxygen in the capillaries.

Question 33

Describe the second loop loop of blood flow.

Answer 33

Oxygen rich blood is pumped into arteries and then capillaries. Oxygen, water, and nutrients are transported to the cells of the body. Where is the carried away.