General Science- Blood and The Circulatory System Flashcards
Functions to transport oxygen throughout the body while removing cabon dioxide.
Circulatory System
What other two tasks does the Circulatory System do for the body?
Transport Nutrients from Digestive System
Clear Away Waste
What drives the Circulatory System?
Heart
How many chambers does the human heart have?
4 Chambers (2 Collecting and 2 Pumping)
What are the Two Collecting chambers called?
Atria or Atrium (Singular)
What are the Two Pumping chambers called?
Ventricles
What does the Right Atrium receive?
Deoxygenated Blood.
The Right Atrium received Deoxygenated Blood from the what?
Venae Cavae (Vena Cava)
The two largest veins in the body is the what?
Venae Cavae
Where does the two largest veins pass to?
Right Ventricle
The Right Ventricle Pumps Blood to the lungs through the what?
Pulmonary Artery
Blood picks up oxygen in the lungs and returns to the what?
Left Atrium
When Blood picks up oxygen and returns to the Left Atrium, they do it via what?
Pulmonary Artery
How does blood flow from the heart to the body?
Right Atrium…Right Ventricle…Lungs..Left Atrium…Left Ventricle..Body
When blood is going through the Left Ventricle it is pumped through the what?
Aorta
What is the body’s largest artery?
Aorta
The Aorta does not branch into several smaller arteries when blood flows through the rest of the body.
False, it does.
When blood is pumped out of the ventricles, what do the VALVES do and why?
They close.
To prevent the blood from flowing backward into the heart after the contraction of the ventricles is complete.
Deoxygenated Blood is at what side of the heart?
Right Side
Oxygenated Blood is at what side of the heart?
Left Side
