Topic 1 Flashcards

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1
Q

What does the heart do

A

Pumps blood around body to supplies oxygen and nutrients to cells

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2
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What does blood do

A

Transports oxygen

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3
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What do blood vessels do

A

Transports blood to organs and transports waste away from the blood

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4
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How has the red blood cell adapted to carrying blood and what shape is it

A

It doesn’t have a nucleus to make more space for oxygen, it is a biconcave
Contains haemoglobin

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5
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What does a white blood cell look like

A

Has a nucleus

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6
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What does white blood cells do

A

Fights infection, bacteria and disease

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7
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What do platelets do and look like

A

Cell fragments that forms scabs and blood clots

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8
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What does plasma look like and do

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Yellow liquid that carries minerals

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9
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Vein characteristics

A

Has valves so blood doesn’t back flow
Thin walls as blood is at low pressure
Flexible to push blood back to heart

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10
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Artery characheteristics

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Have muscular walls so they don’t burst under high pressure of blood

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11
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Capillaries characteristic

A

Single layer of cell walls
Thin walled
No valves

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12
Q

Vein and Artery to lung

A

Pulmonary

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13
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Artery and vein to heart

A

Coronary

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14
Q

Artery and vein to and from liver

A

Hepatic

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15
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Legs and lower body veins and artery’s

A

iliac

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16
Q

Head and brain artery

A

Carotid

17
Q

Head and brain vein

A

Jugular

18
Q

Kidney artery and vein

A

Renal

19
Q

Stomach artery

A

Gastric

20
Q

Stomach veins

A

Hepatic portal vein

21
Q

Small intestine artery

A

Mesentric

22
Q

Small intestine vein

A

Hepatic portal vein

23
Q

What’s at top left of heart (right hand side )

A

Left atrium

24
Q

What’s at bottom left of heart (right hand side)

A

Left ventricle

25
Q

Top right of heart ( left side)

A

Right atrium

26
Q

Bottom right of heart

A

Right ventricle

27
Q

What splits the heart

A

Septum

28
Q

Left side of heart (right) vein is

A

Pulmonary vein and aorta

29
Q

Blood vessels linked to right side of heart (left)

A

Vena cava and pulmonary artery

30
Q

What does LORD stand for

A

Left oxygenated right deoxygenated

31
Q

What goes into left atrium from lungs

A

Pulmonary vein

32
Q

What comes out left ventricle to the body

A

Aorta

33
Q

What comes in right atrium form the body.

A

Vena cava

34
Q

What leaves right ventricle up to lungs

A

Pulmonary artery

35
Q

How to tell who’s fittest

A

Lowest heart rate resting
Lowest heart rate during exercise
Lowest recovery time

36
Q

How do heart attacks occur

A

Coronary artery is blocked meanjng blood to heart muscles restricted causing no oxygen to cardiac muscle meaning heart muscle dies causing heart attack