Test - Circulatory System Flashcards

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  1. What heart structure keeps the left side of the heart and prevents oxygenated and de- oxygenated blood from mixing
A

Septum

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  1. What role does your brain play in the circulation of blood through your body?
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It signals your heart to beat.

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

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  1. The cardiovascular system consists of the heart, blood vessels, and what else?
A

Blood

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  1. Where does the right ventricle pump blood to?
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Lungs
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  1. Blood flows through the body through what?
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Arteries

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  1. Which atrium does blood with large amounts of carbon dioxide go into?
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Right

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  1. Blood returns to the heart from the body through the big blood vessels called what?
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Vena cave

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  1. A flap of tissue that separates the atrium and the ventricle and prevents backward flow of blood
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Valve

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  1. Which group of cells regulate the rate of the heart beats?
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Pacemaker

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  1. A sphygmomanometer measures what?
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Blood pressure

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  1. What substances are exchanged between the blood and body cells?
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Capalaries

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  1. The force with which the what cause contract blood pressure?
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Ventricles heart/

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Where are the pulmonary arteries and veins?

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Above the left and right atrium

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  1. What is the function of the valve?
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To squeeze out blood into the ventricle

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  1. When blood enters the left ventricle is the blood low or high oxygen
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High because the blood just came back from the lungs

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  1. What would happen if there was a hole in the septum?
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It would allow high and low oxygenated blood to mix causing less oxygen going to the blood cells
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