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Heart Rate and Fitne
Heart Rate and Fitness (science 30)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Artery (Function) | Carry blood AWAY from heart. |
| Vein (Function) | Carry blood TOWARDS heart. |
| Capillary (Function) | Exchange nutrients with cells. |
| Cardiovascular Training | -excersize that improves hearts ability to provide muscles with oxygen. -causes heart to increase in elasticity. Greater elasticity= increased volume of blood pumped per minute= heart more efficient! |
| Aterties(Structure) | -thick,elastic, muscular walls. -Elastic tissue allows them to STRETCH. stretching of arteries can be felt as a pulse. |
| Pulse | stretiching of atreries. |
| Artioles | smaller arteries that blood from arteries passes into. |
| Capillary | transports blood (with dissolved foods and oxygen) to the tissues. -AKA: Transports nutrients to cells!!! ALSO: Transports waste products and CO2 from tissues to blood. |
| Pulmonary Artery | carries deoxygenated blood from heart to lungs. |
| Aorta | -largest artery. -carrys oxygenated blood to lower and upper body. |
| Coronary Arteries | carry oxygen-rich blood from the aorta to nourish the heart tissues. |
| Capillaries (Structure&WHY?) | -MUST be THIN WALLS!!!! This is so that oxygen and other substances needed by cells can diffuse to the tissue cells. ALSO: allows CO2 to diffuse from cells into the blood. |
| Average person's Blood Pressure: | 120/80 (systolic/diastolic) |
| Systolic Pressure | Pressure in the blood vessels when the heart contracts. |
| Diastolic Pressure | Pressure in the heart when the heart relaxes. |