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| Your Cardiovascular System includes what 3 things? |
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| blood, heart, and blood vessels |
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| Movement of materials into and out of your cells occurs by what? |
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| Movement of materials from an area of high concentration to an area of low concentration |
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| Movement also occurs by what? (opposite of diffusion?) |
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| What controls blood flow through all parts of the body? |
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Atriums- upper 2 chambers
Ventricles- lower 2 chambers |
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| Does blood flow only from an atrium to a ventricle? |
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| What prevents oxygen-rich blood and oxygen-poor blood from mixing? |
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| a wall betweent the 2 atriums and ventricles |
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| What is divided into 3 sections? |
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| What is the flow of bllod to and from the tissues of the heart? |
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| In what kind of circulation does blood flow through the heart to the lungs, where carbondioxide and other waste materials diffuse out, oxygen diffuses in, and blood goes back to the heart |
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| What moves oxygen rich blood to all the organs and body tissues, except the heart and lungs and retures oxygen-poor blood to the heart? |
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| What do blood vessels do? |
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| carry blood to every part of your body |
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| What are blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart? |
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| Each ventricle of the heart is connected to what? |
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| What ventricle connects to the pulmonary artery? |
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| The left ventrical connects to the _____. |
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| What happens when your heart contractss? |
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| blood is moved from your heart into your arteries |
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| carry blood back to the heart |
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| What do One-way valves do? |
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| keep blood moving toward the heart by muscle contractions throughout the body |
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| What are the 2 major veins? |
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| superior vena cava and inferior vena cava |
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| What vein returns blood from the head and neck? |
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| Which vein returns blood from the abdomen and lower body? |
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| What are microsophic blood vessels that connect arteries to veins? |
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| Nutrients and oxygen diffuse to body cells through what? |
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| What diffuses from body cells to capillaries? |
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| waste materials and carbon dioxide |
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