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Circulatory System Flashcards

1
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What are the two types of circulatory systems

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Open & closed or pulmonary & systematic

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2
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What are the three functions of blood

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Transportation, regulation, protection

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List the 4 parts of blood

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Plasma, erythrocytes, leukocytes, platelets

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What are the 4 main parts to the human circulatory system

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Heart, lungs, kidneys, liver

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Open circulatory system

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Blood is not enclosed in blood vessels and flows and bathed in tissue

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Closed circulatory system

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Blood is enclosed in vessels which carry’s oxygen. These systems are in larger complex organisms.

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7
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Pulmonary circulation

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Blood pumped between heart and lungs

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8
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Systematic circulation

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Blood pumped between heart and rest of body

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What are the 2 phases of breathing

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Inhalation (air rushes into lungs)

Exhalation (air forced out of lungs)

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3 parts of the nephron

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Bowman’s capsules, glomerulus, blood capillaries

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What is the function of the liver

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Liver filters and removes harmful substances like bacteria or alcohol

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12
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What is the role of the kidneys

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Filtration of the blood

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13
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How many times does your heart beat (day&year&lifetime)

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100000 times a day, 35 million a year, 2.5 billion in a lifetime

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14
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Atriums…

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Receive blood when heart relaxes

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Ventricles…

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Pump blood out when heart contracts

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16
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Heart muscle is made up of…

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Atriums, ventricles

17
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Three types of blood vessels…

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Arteries, capillaries, veins

18
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What determines what type of blood you have

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If you have only A antigens you are type A
If you have only B antigens you are type B
A mixture of A&B is type AB
Blood with neither A or B is type O

19
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What makes you have + blood or -

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Some people have a blood protein and some people do not. If your blood contains the protein you are positive. If you don’t carry it you are negative

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