yelverton_kay - Test - Circulatory Flashcards
- What is the function of the group of cells in the heart called the pacemaker?
Sending out signals to make the heart muscles contract
- WKST - The Body’s Transport System
- Blood types are determined by what?
Marker molecules on red blood cells
- WKST - The Body’s Transport System
- When blood flows into the right atrium from the body, it contains
Little oxygen and a lot of carbon dioxide
- CLF - Exterior of the Heart
- Needed substances are carried to the body cells by what
Blood
- WKST - The Body’s Transport System
- What role does your brain play in the circulation of blood through the the body
It signals the heart to beat
- WKST - The Body’s Transport System
- What chamber of the heart pumps oxygen-poor blood to the lungs
Right ventricle
- CLF - Exterior of the Heart
- What would happen if your circulatory system did not deliver oxygen to your body cells
Your body’s cells would die
- WKST - The Body’s Transport System
- Which component of blood is 90 percent water
Plasma
- WKST - Blood and Lymph
- What are the functions of the circulatory system
Carrying oxygen, glucose, and other needed materials to cells, carrying waste products away from cells, transporting cells that attack disease-causing microorganisms
- What chamber of the heart pumps blood to the lungs.
Right ventricle
- CLF - Exterior of the Heart
- As blood moves away from the heart, does blood pressure decrease or increase?
Decreases
- WKST - Blood and Lymph
- What is a pacemaker
A group of cells that regulates the rate at which the heart beats.
- WKST - Blood and Lymph
- Blood that is rich in oxygen leaves the heart through the blood vessel known as what
Aorta
- CLF - Exterior of the Heart
- Substances are exchanged between the blood and body cells in the blood vessels known as
Capillaries
- WKST - The Body’s Transport System
- What is the Septem
The muscle tissue that separates the left side of the heart and the right side of the heart
- CLF - Exterior of the Heart
- What is the aorta?
Largest blood vessel in the body and carries blood from heart to body
- CLF - Exterior of the Heart
- What is the jugular vein
Drains blood from brain and carries to superior vena cave
- CLF - cardiovascular overview
- Why is the aorta important
Supplies most if the body with blood
- CLF - Exterior of the Heart
- What are the blood vessels coming out of the pulmonary trunk
Pulmonary veins and pulmonary arteries and are located at the top of the heart
- CLF - Exterior of the Heart
- What is the function of a femoral vein
Brings blood to the inferior vena cava
- Cardiovascular Overview