Soc 15- Heart Flashcards
What Is The Systole?
It is where the heart contracts.
What Is The Diastole?
When the heart relaxes, heart refills the blood.
How do Arteries, Veins and Carpillaries help during physical activity?
Arteries, Veins and Carpillaries together to supply your muscles with oxygen they needed to work.
What is the importance of an artery?
An artery is a blood vessel taking blood away from the heart. Arteries has thick walls, carrying blood at a higher pressure than veins.
What is the importance of a Vein?
A vein is a vessel carrying blood away from the heart. They have much thinner walls, carrying bllod at a lower pressure than arteries. Veins rarely pulsate.
Veins in Performance
They bring the deoxygenated blood back to the heart for it to be re-oxygenated.
The importance of the carpillaries?
Carpillaries link arteries with veins. The blood pressure is low.
Red Blood Cells importance?
Red Blood Cells transport Oxygen from the lungs to the body’s cells, and carbon dioxide from the cells to the lungs.
WBC?
The blood contains transparent cells called white blood cells. They have an important fuction as the defence system of the body.
