sports test

Question 1

Arteries:

Answer 1

are the vessels who carry the blood away from the heart. They are thick elastic and composed of smooth muscle tissue.

Question 2

Capillaries

Answer 2

from a vast network of small and very thin vessels which allow the oxygen and nutrients to pass into the cells and carbon dioxide removed. Link between arteries and veins.

Question 3

Veins

Answer 3

are the vessels who carry blood back to the heart. They are thin and less elastic. They have valves to keep blood from returning in the opposite direction and they use the help of muscle tissue contractions to move the blood back to the heart.

Question 4

different elements of the circulatory system

Answer 4

different elements of the circulatory system

Question 5

Basic structure and function of the circulatory system

Answer 5

Blood
Blood vessels
Heart

Question 6

VO2max

Answer 6

The VO2max refers to the maximum Oxygen uptake. In other words the VO2max is Highest amount of oxygen a person can consume during maximal exercise of several minutes’ duration.

Question 7

Skeletal or striated muscle

Answer 7

Skeletal muscles give the body its shape and are responsible for all our voluntary movements, being under our conscious control, and can be stopped or started at our will.

Question 8

Smooth muscle

Answer 8

The action is involuntary, meaning they continue to function without conscious thought, whether the body is asleep or awake.
-cells are long and dipdated

Question 9

Cardiac muscle

Answer 9

It is also involuntary, not under conscious control.

Question 10

Flexion

Answer 10

: bending, decreasing the angle between two bones.

Question 11

extension

Answer 11

straightening, increasing the angle between two bones (the opposite action to flexion).

Question 12

Abduction

Answer 12

moving the bone away from the centreline of the body, in either the horizontal or vertical plane.

Question 13

Adduction

Answer 13

moving the bone towards the centreline of the body (opposite of abduction).