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| How many chambers of the heart are there? |
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| What are the chambers of the heart |
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The left and right atrium
left and right ventricle |
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| What is the path of a red blood cell as it flows through the system |
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| Starts at the lungs to the capillaries to the veins to the heart to the left atrium to the left ventricle to the aorta to the arteries to the capillaries to the veins to the heart to the right atrium to the right ventricle to the arteries to the lungs to the capillaries to lungs |
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| What is the function of the arterie |
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| To carry blood away from heart |
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| Substances are exchanged between the blood and body cells |
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| What is the function of the veins |
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| blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart |
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| What is the structure of the Artery |
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| Epithelial cells, smooth muscle, connective tissue |
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What is the structure of the capillary
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| what is the structure of the veins |
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| Epithelial cells, smooth muscle, connective tissue |
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| As more and more platelets and blood cells become trapped in the net, a blood clot forms |
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| What is the path of air as it flows into your body |
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| It passes through the nose into the pharynx into the larynx into the trachea into the bronchus and into the lungs |
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| What muscle helps you breathe? How does it do that? |
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Diaphragm
when you inhale, the diaphragm moves downward and pressure in the lungs decreases, causing air to flow in. When you exhale volume of lungs decrease. |
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| What is the structure and function of each part of the heart |
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Aorta- brings oxygen rich blood from the left ventricle
Septum- separates right and left side
Valves- blood can't flow backwards
Right and left atrium- receive blood
Right and left ventricle- pumps blood out of heart |
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| What is the function of the cardiovascular system |
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| carries needed substances to cells and carries waste products away from cells. in addition, blood contains cells that fight disease |
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| Plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets |
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| What happened during gas exchange |
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| After air enters an alveolus, oxygen passes through the wall of the alveolus and theN through the capillary wall into the blood. Carbon dioxide and water pass from the blood into the alveoli |
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| What is the structure of the respiratory system |
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| Nose Pharynx Larynx Bronchus Lungs and trachea |
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| What is the function of each part of the respiratory system |
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Nose- air enters the body
Pharynx- connects nose to trachea
Larynx- voice box
Trachea- connects pharynx with lungs
Bronchus- moves air into lungs
Lungs- holds bronchus and alveoli |
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| Why do we have blood pressure? |
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| Blood exerts a force against the walls of blood vessels. Also ventricles contract |
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