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Which body system transports blood cells through various blood vessels?
What are the major components of the circulatory system?
What structures of the circulatory system are similar to the roads of a city?
What is the myocardium?
Which pathway is the largest of the circulatory system?
Where are the cells that make up the pacemaker (SA node) located?
Describe the path of blood flow through the heart.
Is “lymph” part of the circulatory system? Why or why not?
Which type of blood vessel(s) have thinner walls than that of arteries?
What is the smallest of all blood vessels?
What are the three main types of blood vessels in the body?
What is the function of valves in the human circulatory system?
What are some effects of exercise on the circulatory system?
How does blood pressure change, as blood passes from arteries to veins?
What would the systolic blood pressure be for a person with a 120/80 blood pressure?
When the heart contracts, which blood vessels receive a wave of fluid pressure?
Which organ(s) helps to regulate blood pressure?
What is hypertension?
What activities are keys to avoiding cardiovascular disease?
What are some symptoms commonly seen and felt before a heart attack?
What are the functions of blood?
How much water (percentage) is contained in plasma?
How many liters of blood does the average human body contain?
What is the function of albumins?
Describe what happens during the clumping of platelets after a break in a capillary wall.
What does fibrinogen convert into during the process of blood clotting?
What is the first step in blood clotting?
Which blood cell contains hemoglobin?
What would swollen lymph nodes indicate?
Which body system acts as “insurance” for the circulatory system?
What is an edema?
What are some functions of the lymphatic system?
What is respiration?
What are some signs that a person is breathing?
Provide an analogy that would describe the exchange of oxygen for carbon dioxide during respiration.
What are some characteristics of lungs?
What structure within the respiratory system serves as a passageway for both air and food?
What happens to air as it passes through the nose and mouth?
If an analogy describes air as a motorist, what would alveoli be described as?
Which muscle forces air into the lungs by contracting?
What controls breathing?
Where is the exact point of the respiratory system where oxygen diffuses from the lungs?
What are some respiratory diseases that are caused by smoking?
What chemicals or carcinogens are found in tobacco?
Which gas found in cigarette smoke blocks the transport of oxygen by hemoglobin in the blood?
What is meant by saying that humans have a closed circulatory system?
What are the flaps of connective tissue called that are located between the atria and the ventricles?
Which two gases are exchanged during respiration?
What covers the entrance to the trachea when you swallow food?
Which type of tiny blood vessel lies between arteries and veins and is the site of gas exchange across the
membrane of an alveolus?