SG 9: Cardiovascular System

Question 1

Be able to list and explain the functions of the CVS.

Answer 1

a

Question 2

What is vasoconstriction

Answer 2

a

Question 3

what is vasodilation

Answer 3

a

Question 4

Be able to describe the different tissue layers surrounding arteries veins

Answer 4

a

Question 5

Be able to describe the different tissue layers surrounding capillaries

Answer 5

a

Question 6

Be able to describe the different tissue layers surrounding arteries

Answer 6

a

Question 7

what are veins?

Answer 7

a

Question 8

what are capillaries?

Answer 8

a

Question 9

what are arteries?

Answer 9

a

Question 10

What is “lumen”?

Answer 10

a

Question 11

What vessels have the largest lumens?

Answer 11

a

Question 12

What vessels have the thickest walls?

Answer 12

a

Question 13

Be able to explain the relation between vessel section and blood velocity.

Answer 13

a

Question 14

What is an arteriole?

Answer 14

a

Question 15

what is a venule?

Answer 15

a

Question 16

What is a capillary bed?

Answer 16

a

Question 17

What structures controlled the opening/closing of a capillary?

Answer 17

a

Question 18

What are the three mechanisms that aid in blood return through the veins?

Answer 18

a

Question 19

What is a varicose vein

Answer 19

a

Question 20

what are negative consequences of walking in two legs?

Answer 20

a

Question 21

Be able to explain the mechanism that produces the pulse.

Answer 21

a

Question 22

Be able to explain what an aneurysm is and why it is dangerous.

Answer 22

a

Question 23

Be able to describe and locate in a diagram the following structures:

Answer 23

Myocardium, pericardium, coronary artery
Atrium (left and right), ventricle (left and right), septum,
Tricuspid valve, bicuspid (mitral) valve, aortic vale,
Semilunar valve, pulmonary valve, Vena cava,
Aorta, pulmonary artery, pulmonary veins

Question 24

Be able to describe the route that the blood describes in the body and within the heart.

Answer 24

a

Question 25

Be able to explain the events that take place during the cardiac cycle

Answer 25

a

Question 26

Be able to explain the events that take place during the systole

Answer 26

a

Question 27

Be able to explain the events that take place during the diastole

Answer 27

a

Question 28

What is a heart murmur? What are its causes?

Answer 28

a

Question 29

Be able to explain the internal control of the heart beat

Answer 29

a

Question 30

what are the functions of the SA and AV nodes.

Answer 30

a

Question 31

Be able to define what is an EKG (or ECG).

Answer 31

a

Question 32

Be able to explain how the nervous and endocrine systems regulate the cardiac cycle.

Answer 32

a

Question 33

Be able to define blood pressure and its normal values.

Answer 33

a

Question 34

How does blood pressure vary with the distance to the heart?

Answer 34

a

Question 35

Be able to explain the mechanisms by which the body controls BP

Answer 35

a

Question 36

causes, consequences and possible treatments for Hypertension

Answer 36

a

Question 37

causes, consequences and possible treatments for Atherosclerosis

Answer 37

a

Question 38

causes, consequences and possible treatments for Plaque

Answer 38

a

Question 39

causes, consequences and possible treatments for Thrombus

Answer 39

a

Question 40

causes, consequences and possible treatments for embolus

Answer 40

a

Question 41

causes, consequences and possible treatments for stroke

Answer 41

a

Question 42

describe the following treatment: stent

Answer 42

a

Question 43

describe the following treatment: surgical bypass

Answer 43

a