Soc 15- Heart Flashcards

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What Is The Systole?

A

It is where the heart contracts.

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What Is The Diastole?

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When the heart relaxes, heart refills the blood.

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How do Arteries, Veins and Carpillaries help during physical activity?

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Arteries, Veins and Carpillaries together to supply your muscles with oxygen they needed to work.

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What is the importance of an artery?

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An artery is a blood vessel taking blood away from the heart. Arteries has thick walls, carrying blood at a higher pressure than veins.

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What is the importance of a Vein?

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A vein is a vessel carrying blood away from the heart. They have much thinner walls, carrying bllod at a lower pressure than arteries. Veins rarely pulsate.

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Veins in Performance

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They bring the deoxygenated blood back to the heart for it to be re-oxygenated.

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The importance of the carpillaries?

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Carpillaries link arteries with veins. The blood pressure is low.

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Red Blood Cells importance?

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Red Blood Cells transport Oxygen from the lungs to the body’s cells, and carbon dioxide from the cells to the lungs.

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WBC?

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The blood contains transparent cells called white blood cells. They have an important fuction as the defence system of the body.

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