Cadiovascular System

Question 1

What are the 4 functions of the cardiovascular system?

Answer 1

Transports oxygen, transports nutrients, transports waste throughout the body and it also pumps/transports blood

Question 2

What are the tissues in the cardio system?

Answer 2

Cardio muscle, smooth muscle, connective tissue

Question 3

What is an artery?

Answer 3

Carries blood away from the heart. Large, thick muscular walls. Oxygenated blood

Question 4

What are arterioles?

Answer 4

Smaller vessels that enter tissue

Question 5

What are veins?

Answer 5

Carries blood to heart. Contains Co2 and waste. Deoxygenated blood.

Question 6

What are valves?

Answer 6

To keep backward blood flow

Question 7

What are capillaries?

Answer 7

Smallest vessel. Once cell thick. Connects veins and arteries

Question 8

What happen at the capillaries?

Answer 8

Nutrients and gases diffuse here

Question 9

What are the 2 pathways of blood circulation?

Answer 9

System circulation and pulmonary circulation.

Question 10

What is systemic circulation?

Answer 10

Carries blood to the body and back.

Question 11

What is pulmonary circulation?

Answer 11

Carries blood to the lungs and back

Question 12

What is the structure and function of the heart?

Answer 12

Composed in cardiac muscle, enclosed by the pericardium sac: it protects the heart

Question 13

What is the path of blood?

Question 14

What is blood pressure?

Answer 14

Pressure of blood against the arteries. Measure in mmHg

Question 15

What are the two types of pressure of blood?

Answer 15

Systolic pressure and diastolic pressure

Question 16

What is systolic pressure?

Answer 16

Pressure of arteries while ventricles pump blood.

Question 17

What is diastolic pressure?

Answer 17

Pressure of arteries while ventricles fill up with blood

Question 18

What is high blood pressure?

Answer 18

Hypertension, could risk heart attack or stroke

Question 19

What is low blood pressure?

Answer 19

Hypotension, can cause fainting and dizziness

Question 20

What is heart rate?

Answer 20

Number of times your heart beats per minute

Question 21

What is pulse?

Answer 21

Throbbing of arteries as heart pushes blood through them

Question 22

What is the functions of blood?

Answer 22

Carries nutrients and 02 to cells, gets rid of waste and co2, body temperature regulation

Question 23

What are the 4 parts of blood?

Answer 23

Platelets, plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells

Question 24

What is plasma?

Answer 24

Fluid part of the cell, water mineral, nutrients, sugar, proteins

Question 25

What are platelets?

Answer 25

Cell fragments produce in bone marrow. Short life span of 7 days. Involved with blood clotting.

Question 26

What are red blood cells?

Answer 26

Involved in carrying o2, hemoglobin, contains iron,

Question 27

What is a hemgoblin?

Answer 27

It is a protein

Question 28

What is white blood cells?

Answer 28

Leukocytes, several different types, fight infection, release antibodies, destroy damaged cells

Question 29

What is another name for red blood cells?

Answer 29

Erythrocytes

Question 30

What are the 4 blood types?

Answer 30

A,B,O,or AB

Question 31

What are antigens?

Answer 31

Each type has different surface protein,. ( antigens on rbc except for O

Question 32

What are antibodies?

Answer 32

Immune system recognizessuface proteins in blood. Proteins produced to other blood types except AB

Question 33

What happen when you mix blood?

Answer 33

Causes clumping, agglutination

Question 34

What does positive and negative blood types mean?

Answer 34

Refers to the presence of the Rh factor

Question 35

What is the Rh factor?

Answer 35

Protein found in the surface of red blood cells

Question 36

What is positive blood?

Answer 36

Rh factor is present

Question 37

What is negative blood?

Answer 37

Rh factor is nonexistent

Question 38

What so blood transfusion?

Answer 38

Injection of blood into a person to replace the blood that has been lost

Question 39

What blood type can accept all blood from other blood types?

Answer 39

AB

Question 40

What is O blood type?

Answer 40

Individuals can donate blood to all other blood types