CIRCULATORY SYSTEM

Question 1

Mechanisms in the body that facilitates the nourishment of cells with the various nutrients and essential elements introduced into our body through the food that we eat and the air that we breathe.

Answer 1

Circulatory System

Question 2

What are the 3 Major Organs in the Circulatory System?

Answer 2

Heart , Blood Vessels, and Blood

Question 3

Pumping station of the blood throughout the body. It is also a hollow muscular organ that has four chambers each with a specific task to do.

Answer 3

Heart

Question 4

What are the chambers of the Heart?

Answer 4

Atrias and Ventricles

Question 5

Accepts blood from the Body and from the Lungs. Also called as Receiving Chambers.

Answer 5

Atrias

Question 6

Pumps blood to the Lungs and to the different parts of the body. Also called as Pumping Chambers

Answer 6

Ventricles

Question 7

Carry blood throughout the Body

Answer 7

Blood Vessels

Question 8

What are the 3 types of Blood Vessels

Answer 8

Arteries, Veins, and Capillaries

Question 9

Carry oxygen rich blood away from the heart to the cells, tissues, and organs in the body. Observed to have a reddish coloration indicating richness of oxygen.

Answer 9

Arteries

Question 10

Only artery that carries the deoxygenated blood to the Lungs.

Answer 10

Pulmonary Artery

Question 11

Carry deoxygenated blood to the Heart. Observed to have a darker or bluish coloration indicating low oxygen composition.

Answer 11

Veins

Question 12

Only vein that carries oxygenated blood from the Lungs to the Heart

Answer 12

Pulmonary Vein

Question 13

Site of gas and nutrient exchange in the Lungs. Smallest Blood Vessels in the body connecting the smallest Arteries and Veins.

Answer 13

Capillaries

Question 14

Carries the essential nutrients and gases to the different parts of the body. Generally composed of liquid part, plasma, and blood cells.

Answer 14

Blood

Question 15

What are the 2 types of Blood Cells?

Answer 15

Red Blood Cells and White Blood Cells

Question 16

Generally produced in the bone marrow. Also known as Erythrocytes containing the protein Hemoglobin. Contains iron responsible for carrying oxygen.

Answer 16

Red Blood Cells

Question 17

Responsible for the red coloration of your blood.

Answer 17

Hemoglobin

Question 18

Act as the defense system in the body. Also known as Leucocytes.

Answer 18

White Blood Cells

Question 19

Contains Thromboplatism responsible for Blood Clotting. Also known as thrombocytes. React to bleeding from blood vessel injury by clumping, there by initiating blood clot.

Answer 19

Platelets

Question 20

Percentage of Blood Cells

Answer 20

45%

Question 21

Percentage of Plasma.

Answer 21

55%

Question 22

A type of WBC that acts against foreign materials.

Answer 22

Antibodies

Question 23

Materials that causes the body to produce Antibodies.

Answer 23

Antigens

Question 24

What are the 3 Circulations in the Body?

Answer 24

Pulmonary, Systemic, and Coronary Circulation

Question 25

Deoxygenated blood moves away from the Right Ventricle to the Lung via the Pulmonary Artery, and returns oxygenated blood to the Left Atrium and Ventricle of the Heart.

Answer 25

Pulmonary Circulation

Question 26

Oxygen rich blood from the Lungs move passing through the Pulmonary Vein and enters the Left Atrium of the Heart and goes to the Left Ventricle from the Left Ventricle. It pumps blood through the Arteries via the Aorta, to the Capillaries in the Tissues of the body and picks up waste materials and CO2

Answer 26

Systemic Circulation