Test- Circulatory System Flashcards

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  1. What type of tissue in the heart pumps blood throughout the body?
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Muscle tissue

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  1. If a person’s blood lacked platelets, what process could not take place
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Clotting of blood

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  1. Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart are called?
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Arteries

64. Pathways of the Circulatory System

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  1. In which vessels are the materials exchanged between the blood and the body cells?
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Capillaries

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  1. Which chamber of the heart pumps oxygen poor blood to the lungs?
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Right ventricle

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  1. True or false? Blood flows from the heart to the body through veins?
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False, arteries

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  1. True or false? The left ventricle pumps blood to the Lungs.
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False, right

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  1. True or false? The cardiovascular system consist of the heart blood vessels and lymph?
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False, blood

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  1. True or false? As blood moves away from the heart blood pressure increases?
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False, decreases

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  1. Blood that is rich in oxygen leaves the heart through the blood vessel known as the
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Aorta

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  1. A sphygmomanometer measures
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Blood pressure

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  1. Blood returns to the heart from the body through the big blood vessel called
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Vena cava

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  1. Fibrin is produced when the blood components called “ “start a chain reaction that produces a blood clot
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Platelets

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  1. Where are the pulmonary veins?
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Located at the upper heart

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  1. A. Where are the right pulmonary arteries?
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Left side of the heart, and carries oxygenated blood to the left atrium of the heart.
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  1. B. Where are the Left Pulmonary veins?
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Veins on the right side of the heart.

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  1. B. Where is the inferior vena cava?
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blood vessel at the lower end of the heart.

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