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Health Chapter 2 Flashcards

1
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What are the three main parts of the cardiovascular system?

A

Heart, Blood Vessels, and Blood.

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2
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What are the main pumping chambers in the heart?

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Ventricle.

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3
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What is the holding tank for blood before it enters the ventricle?

A

Atrium.

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4
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What is the largest artery in the body?

A

Aorta.

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5
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What are the vessels that carry blood away from the heart?

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Arteries.

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6
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What is the loose sac that keeps the heart from rubbing against the chest wall?

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Pericardium.

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7
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What cells carry oxygen?

A

Red Blood Cells.

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8
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What is the duty of the white blood cells?

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To destroy pathogens.

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9
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How do street drugs effect the heart?

A

Make the heart beat faster.

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10
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What is the name given to the volume of blood ejected from the heart with each contraction?

A

Stroke volume.

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11
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Where are the adrenal glands located?

A

At the top of each kidney.

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12
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What are some effects epinephrine has on the body?

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Hearing ability increases, cells release energy faster, liver releases glucose into the bloodstream, muscles tense, blood volume to the brain increases, pupils dilate for sharper vision, breathing rate increases, sweating increases, heart rate and blood pressure increases, stomach acid content increases, digestion rate decreases, blood vessels dilate, blood clotting ability increases.

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13
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What are the three main parts of your cardiovascular system

A

heart, blood vessels, and blood

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14
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About ow many times does your heart beat every year

A

40 million

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15
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About how many times does your heart beat by the time you are 25

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1 billion

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16
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Your heart is designed with a special muscle tissue called the _________ _________ which allows it to rest between beats

A

cardiac muscle

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17
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The heart is enclosed in the _______________, a loose sac that keeps the pulsing heart from rubbing against the chest wall

A

pericardium

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18
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What separates the heart’s two beats

A

the septum

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19
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The heart’s holding tank

A

atrium

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20
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The heart’s pumping chamber

A

ventricle

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21
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the main function of your _______ is to transport blood to every cell in the body

A

heart

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22
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What prefix refers to the heart

A

cardio

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23
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What prefixes refers to the body’s blood or lymph vessels

A

Vaso or vascular

24
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What prefix means surrounding or enclosing

A

peri

25
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A network of blood vessels in your body carries blood away from the heart and returns it again in a process called _______________

A

Circulation

26
Q

What is the largest artery in the body called

A

aorta

27
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What are the name of the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart

A

arteries

28
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What are the smallest arteries called

A

arterioles

29
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What is the name of the smallest blood vessels

A

capillaries

30
Q

What are the smallest veins called

A

venules

31
Q

What is the name of the large veins that lead to the right atrium

A

venae cava

32
Q

What is another name for your pulse

A

your heart rate

33
Q

Where are your radial arteries

A

wrists

34
Q

Where are your carotid arteries

A

neck

35
Q

where are your temporal arteries

A

the sides of your face by your eyes

36
Q

What do your cells need to produce energy

A

food and oxygen

37
Q

How much of your blood is made up of plasma

A

over 50%

38
Q

Plasma is the _________ part of your blood

A

liquid

39
Q

How much of plasma is water

A

four fifths

40
Q

Which blood cells carry life sustaining oxygen to all parts of the body

A

red blood cells

41
Q

Which blood cells surround and destroy disease causing organisms

A

White blood cells

42
Q

Floating in the plasma are _____________ that also help fight pathogens

A

Antibodies

42
Q

______________ are disease causing organisms

A

pathogens

43
Q

_____________ help the blood to clot if a blood vessel has been cut.

A

Platelets

44
Q

What is the volume of blood ejected from the ventricle with each contraction-giving you more physical endurance

A

Stroke volume

45
Q

What do street drugs to to your heart

A

Beat faster and produces strain

46
Q

Where are he adrenal glands located

A

On top of each kidney

47
Q

What is the adrenal glands job

A

Secrete several hormones

48
Q

What are the names of the two hormones secreted by the adrenal glands

A

Epinephrine and thrombin

49
Q

What is another name for epinephrine

A

Adrenalin

50
Q

The adrenal glands release a special blood clotting enzyme called what

A

Thrombin

51
Q

vessels bringing blood to the heart

A

veins

52
Q

What prefix refers to the arteries

A

Arterio

53
Q

What prefix means disease

A

Patho

54
Q

What suffix refers to a substance that produces

A

Gen

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