CirculatorySystLarge

Review Questions

Diagrams

Helpful Websites

Blood Types

DiagramHeart

1. Aorta

10. Inferior Vena Cava

2. Superior Vena Cava

11. Descending Aorta

3. Rt. Pulmonary Artery

12. Interventricular Septum

4. (Trunk of) Pulmonary Artery

13. Left Ventricle

5. Rt. Pulmonary Veins

14. Bicuspid (Mitral) Valve (Left A-V valve)

6. Pulmonary Valve (semilunar valve)

15. Aortic Valve (semilunar valve)

7. Rt. Atrium

16. Left Atrium

8. Tricuspid Valve (Rt. A-V valve)

17. Left Pulmonary Veins

9. Rt. Ventricle

18. Left Pulmonary Artery

Helpful Website-Good for Review

Good site to review circulation http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/cardiovascular/click.html
(go to Vertebrate Circulatorium)

Electrocardiogram Primer http://www.hhmi.org/biointeractive/cardiovascular/click.html

Human Blood http://anthro.palomar.edu/blood/default.htm

Anatomy of the Human Circulatory System http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/C/Circulation.html

The Human Circulatory System: How It Works http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/C/Circulation2.html

Blood http://www.ultranet.com/~jkimball/BiologyPages/B/Blood.html

Circulatory System Websites http://www.benet.org/teachers/meraci/WebSites/Human_Anatomy/human_anatomy.html

Web Anatomy: Cardiovascular System http://www.gen.umn.edu/faculty_staff/jensen/1135/webanatomy/wa_cvs/

Cardiac Circulation http://laxmi.nuc.ucla.edu:8888/Libraries/Animations/CIRCULATORY/

Blood Types-Helpful Websites

ABO Blood Types http://daphne.palomar.edu/blood/ABO_system.htm

Blood Types http://www.okstate.edu/artsci/zoo_home/zoo_lrc/1114www/genetics/blood.htm

Rh Blood Types http://daphne.palomar.edu/blood/Rh_system.htm

Frequencies of Blood Types http://daphne.palomar.edu/blood/table_of_ABO_and_Rh_blood_type_frequencies_in_US.htm

Blood Components http://daphne.palomar.edu/blood/blood_components.htm

Review Questions

1. Discuss the function(s) of the circualtory systems

2. What are the components of the circulatory system?

3. Discuss the similarities between an artery and a vein.

4. What are the two categories of valves found in the human heart? Discuss their functions. Give the specific names of the individual valves from these two categories and indicate where they are found.

5.Trace the path that the blood follows in systemic and pulmonary circulation.

6. Define pericardium?

7. Discuss the structure of the heart and how its structure follows the function of the heart.

8. What is blood pressure? Discuss systolic pressure and diastolic pressure.

9. Choose a term that best matches or completes the following statements

a. Protective membrane around the heart

j. movement of blood heart to body cells and back to the heart

b. Carries blood to the lungs

k. chamber that receives oxygenated blood from the lungs

c. transports blood out of the heart to the body

l. pumps deoxygenated blood to the lungs

d. keeps blood from flowing back into the right atrium

m. the blood vessels that supply the heart with nutrients and oxygen

e. keeps blood from flowing back into the left ventricle

n. transports oxygenated blood to the heart

f. disease where fatty substance builds up on artery walls

o. high blood pressure

g. contraction of ventricles

p. specialized tissue that regulates the heartbeat

h. relaxation of ventricles

q. chamber that receives deoxygenated blood from the body

i. movement of blood from heart to lungs and back to the heart

l. chamber that receives deoxygenated blood from the body

10. Match the following statements with the appropriate blood vessel

a. smallest blood vessel

g. cholesterol deposits here

b. thickest

h. classification of aorta

c. greatest pressure

i. carries blood away from the heart

d. valves present

j. classification of vena cavae

e. usually deep within the body

k. carries blood to the heart

f. carries on exchange of materials

l. meeting point of venous and arterial system

11. Match the following statement with the appropriate blood component(s).

a. greatest in number

h. amoeba-like: surround and digest foreign material

b. have a nucleus

i. contain hemoglobin

c. transport oxygen

j. produce antibodies

d. function in blood clotting

k. attack bacteria

e. largest in size

l. too few: anemia

f. liquid portion of blood

m. too many: leukemia

g. change prothrombin into thrombin

n. 55% of blood

Blood and Lymph: Choos a term that best matches or completes the following statements

a. clumping of blood cells

g. a network of vessels that returns tissue fluid to the blood

b. universal donor

h. disease characterized by runaway production of white blood cells

c. universal recipient

i. disease characterized by severe shortage of hemoglobin

d. people with the Rh factor are __?__

j. enlarged structure containing white blood cells that attack disease

e. chemicals that attack and neutralize foreign substances

k. enzyme in blood necessary for clotting to occur

f. any molecule that causes the synthesis of antibodies when that molecule enters another organism

l. technical name for white blood cell

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