General Science- Blood and The Circulatory System

Question 1

Functions to transport oxygen throughout the body while removing cabon dioxide.

Answer 1

Circulatory System

Question 2

What other two tasks does the Circulatory System do for the body?

Answer 2

Transport Nutrients from Digestive System

Clear Away Waste

Question 3

What drives the Circulatory System?

Answer 3

Heart

Question 4

How many chambers does the human heart have?

Answer 4

4 Chambers (2 Collecting and 2 Pumping)

Question 5

What are the Two Collecting chambers called?

Answer 5

Atria or Atrium (Singular)

Question 6

What are the Two Pumping chambers called?

Answer 6

Ventricles

Question 7

What does the Right Atrium receive?

Answer 7

Deoxygenated Blood.

Question 8

The Right Atrium received Deoxygenated Blood from the what?

Answer 8

Venae Cavae (Vena Cava)

Question 9

The two largest veins in the body is the what?

Answer 9

Venae Cavae

Question 10

Where does the two largest veins pass to?

Answer 10

Right Ventricle

Question 11

The Right Ventricle Pumps Blood to the lungs through the what?

Answer 11

Pulmonary Artery

Question 12

Blood picks up oxygen in the lungs and returns to the what?

Answer 12

Left Atrium

Question 13

When Blood picks up oxygen and returns to the Left Atrium, they do it via what?

Answer 13

Pulmonary Artery

Question 14

How does blood flow from the heart to the body?

Answer 14

Right Atrium…Right Ventricle…Lungs..Left Atrium…Left Ventricle..Body

Question 15

When blood is going through the Left Ventricle it is pumped through the what?

Answer 15

Aorta

Question 16

What is the body’s largest artery?

Answer 16

Aorta

Question 17

The Aorta does not branch into several smaller arteries when blood flows through the rest of the body.

Answer 17

False, it does.

Question 18

When blood is pumped out of the ventricles, what do the VALVES do and why?

Answer 18

They close.

To prevent the blood from flowing backward into the heart after the contraction of the ventricles is complete.

Question 19

Deoxygenated Blood is at what side of the heart?

Answer 19

Right Side

Question 20

Oxygenated Blood is at what side of the heart?

Answer 20

Left Side