Health Chapter 2

Question 1

What are the three main parts of the cardiovascular system?

Answer 1

Heart, Blood Vessels, and Blood.

Question 2

What are the main pumping chambers in the heart?

Answer 2

Ventricle.

Question 3

What is the holding tank for blood before it enters the ventricle?

Answer 3

Atrium.

Question 4

What is the largest artery in the body?

Answer 4

Aorta.

Question 5

What are the vessels that carry blood away from the heart?

Answer 5

Arteries.

Question 6

What is the loose sac that keeps the heart from rubbing against the chest wall?

Answer 6

Pericardium.

Question 7

What cells carry oxygen?

Answer 7

Red Blood Cells.

Question 8

What is the duty of the white blood cells?

Answer 8

To destroy pathogens.

Question 9

How do street drugs effect the heart?

Answer 9

Make the heart beat faster.

Question 10

What is the name given to the volume of blood ejected from the heart with each contraction?

Answer 10

Stroke volume.

Question 11

Where are the adrenal glands located?

Answer 11

At the top of each kidney.

Question 12

What are some effects epinephrine has on the body?

Answer 12

Hearing ability increases, cells release energy faster, liver releases glucose into the bloodstream, muscles tense, blood volume to the brain increases, pupils dilate for sharper vision, breathing rate increases, sweating increases, heart rate and blood pressure increases, stomach acid content increases, digestion rate decreases, blood vessels dilate, blood clotting ability increases.

Question 13

What are the three main parts of your cardiovascular system

Answer 13

heart, blood vessels, and blood

Question 14

About ow many times does your heart beat every year

Answer 14

40 million

Question 15

About how many times does your heart beat by the time you are 25

Answer 15

1 billion

Question 16

Your heart is designed with a special muscle tissue called the _________ _________ which allows it to rest between beats

Answer 16

cardiac muscle

Question 17

The heart is enclosed in the _______________, a loose sac that keeps the pulsing heart from rubbing against the chest wall

Answer 17

pericardium

Question 18

What separates the heart’s two beats

Answer 18

the septum

Question 19

The heart’s holding tank

Answer 19

atrium

Question 20

The heart’s pumping chamber

Answer 20

ventricle

Question 21

the main function of your _______ is to transport blood to every cell in the body

Answer 21

heart

Question 22

What prefix refers to the heart

Answer 22

cardio

Question 23

What prefixes refers to the body’s blood or lymph vessels

Answer 23

Vaso or vascular

Question 24

What prefix means surrounding or enclosing

Answer 24

peri

Question 25

A network of blood vessels in your body carries blood away from the heart and returns it again in a process called _______________

Answer 25

Circulation

Question 26

What is the largest artery in the body called

Answer 26

aorta

Question 27

What are the name of the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart

Answer 27

arteries

Question 28

What are the smallest arteries called

Answer 28

arterioles

Question 29

What is the name of the smallest blood vessels

Answer 29

capillaries

Question 30

What are the smallest veins called

Answer 30

venules

Question 31

What is the name of the large veins that lead to the right atrium

Answer 31

venae cava

Question 32

What is another name for your pulse

Answer 32

your heart rate

Question 33

Where are your radial arteries

Answer 33

wrists

Question 34

Where are your carotid arteries

Answer 34

neck

Question 35

where are your temporal arteries

Answer 35

the sides of your face by your eyes

Question 36

What do your cells need to produce energy

Answer 36

food and oxygen

Question 37

How much of your blood is made up of plasma

Answer 37

over 50%

Question 38

Plasma is the _________ part of your blood

Answer 38

liquid

Question 39

How much of plasma is water

Answer 39

four fifths

Question 40

Which blood cells carry life sustaining oxygen to all parts of the body

Answer 40

red blood cells

Question 41

Which blood cells surround and destroy disease causing organisms

Answer 41

White blood cells

Question 42

Floating in the plasma are _____________ that also help fight pathogens

Answer 42

Antibodies

Question 42

______________ are disease causing organisms

Answer 42

pathogens

Question 43

_____________ help the blood to clot if a blood vessel has been cut.

Answer 43

Platelets

Question 44

What is the volume of blood ejected from the ventricle with each contraction-giving you more physical endurance

Answer 44

Stroke volume

Question 45

What do street drugs to to your heart

Answer 45

Beat faster and produces strain

Question 46

Where are he adrenal glands located

Answer 46

On top of each kidney

Question 47

What is the adrenal glands job

Answer 47

Secrete several hormones

Question 48

What are the names of the two hormones secreted by the adrenal glands

Answer 48

Epinephrine and thrombin

Question 49

What is another name for epinephrine

Answer 49

Adrenalin

Question 50

The adrenal glands release a special blood clotting enzyme called what

Answer 50

Thrombin

Question 51

vessels bringing blood to the heart

Answer 51

veins

Question 52

What prefix refers to the arteries

Answer 52

Arterio

Question 53

What prefix means disease

Answer 53

Patho

Question 54

What suffix refers to a substance that produces

Answer 54

Gen