Its major function is to nurture_____ within the body?

What are the two gases that we talk about with 'gas exchange' within the capillaries

Your heart is pear shaped about the size of your ______

Your heart is enclosed in a 2 layer sac called the __________ HINT: The first part of the word means 2 and the second part of the word means heart

The heart is divided into how many chambers?

What are names of the two upper chambers?

What are the names of the two lower chambers?

These chambers are SEPERATED by what is called the______?

Flow of blood from the heart to the lungs and back to heart is called __________ circulation?

This circulation moves blood to all of the organs of the body except the lungs

What are the 4 components that make up the blood?

The RBC's deliver_______ to the cells and remove _________ to be exhaled and removed by the kidneys

I am a compenent of blood and my main job is to fight off pathogens that enter the body

These are the smallest parts of the blood and help with clotting the blood?

Platelets produce small FIBERS that act like a web and help with blood clotting?

This type of blood is called the 'universal donor'

This type of blood is called the 'universal recipient'

What are the proteins in the blood called that make our blood either positive or negative?

What % of people in the US have + Rh factors? What % have - Rh factors?

Explain what would happen if you received a blood transfusion and the blood was a different Rh factor or blood type?

How long are the blood vessels in your body?

These blood vessels carry blood 'AWAY' from the heart and are the largest of the blood vessels

What are the branches of arteries called that regulate the blood?

Once the blood flows from the arteries and branches into the arterioles, it than flows into the ___________ where the 'gas exchange' takes place. HINT: Smallest of the blood vessels

After the 'gas exchange' in the capillaries, the blood flows into the VENULES where it enters the _______ which have ________ that prevent the blood from pooling

cells

Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide

Fist

Pericardium

4 chambers

Atria or R/L Atrium

R/L Ventricles

Septum

Pulmonary Circulation

Systemic Circulation

RBC's, WBC's, Plasma, and Platelets

Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide

WBC's

Plateletes

Fibrin

Type O

Type AB

Rh Factors

85% have positive, 15% negative

Your blood would create antibodies that would fight itself; causing the blood to coagulate

100,000 miles long

Arteries

Arterioles

Capillaries

Veins, valves