Test- Circulatory System Flashcards
- What type of tissue in the heart pumps blood throughout the body?
Muscle tissue
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- If a person’s blood lacked platelets, what process could not take place
Clotting of blood
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- Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart are called?
Arteries
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- In which vessels are the materials exchanged between the blood and the body cells?
Capillaries
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- Which chamber of the heart pumps oxygen poor blood to the lungs?
Right ventricle
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- True or false? Blood flows from the heart to the body through veins?
False, arteries
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- True or false? The left ventricle pumps blood to the Lungs.
False, right
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- True or false? The cardiovascular system consist of the heart blood vessels and lymph?
False, blood
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- True or false? As blood moves away from the heart blood pressure increases?
False, decreases
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- Blood that is rich in oxygen leaves the heart through the blood vessel known as the
Aorta
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- A sphygmomanometer measures
Blood pressure
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- Blood returns to the heart from the body through the big blood vessel called
Vena cava
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- Fibrin is produced when the blood components called “ “start a chain reaction that produces a blood clot
Platelets
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- Where are the pulmonary veins?
Located at the upper heart
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- A. Where are the right pulmonary arteries?
Left side of the heart, and carries oxygenated blood to the left atrium of the heart.
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