Cardiovascular System
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| What system do heart, blood, arteries, veins, capillaries, and lymphatic system make up? | Circulatory system
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| What does the heart and the three types of blood vessels make up? | Cardiovascular system
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| What does the word cardio mean? | Heart
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| What does the word vascular mean? | Blood vessel
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| What are arteries, veins, and capillaries; they carry blood throughout the body? | Vessels
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| What kind of tissue makes up most of the heart? | Cardiac
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| What is each upper chamber of the heart called? | Atrium
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| What is each lower chamber of the heart called? | Ventricle
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| Where does the right side of the heart pump oxygen-poor blood to? | Lungs
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| Where does the left side of the heart pump oxygen-rich blood to? | Body
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| When atria relax, what do ventricles do? | Contract
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| Why do the heart's valves close? | To prevent blood from going the other direction
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| What part of the heart makes the heartbeat sound? | Veins
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| What carries blood back to the heart? | Veins
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| What allows exchanges between blood and body cells? | Capillary
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| What carries blood away from the heart? | Artery
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| What is pressure caused by heartbeats? | Blood pressure
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| What is caused by a rhythmic change in blood pressure? | Pulse
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| What is the narrowest kind of blood vessel? | Capillaries
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| What kind of blood vessels are helped by the contracting of skeletal muscles? | Veins
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| What kind of blood vessels stretch due to blood pressure? | Arteries
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| What is added to blood when it is pumped to the lungs? | Oxygen
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| What is taken from blood when it is pumped to the lungs? | Carbon dioxide
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| Where does the exchange of blood and oxygen take place in the lungs? | Capillaries
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| What is the flow of blood between the heart to the lungs? | Pulmonary circulation
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| What is the flow of blood between the heart and the rest of the body? | Systematic circulation
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| What can cardiovascular problems harm? | Body
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| What can reduce the risk of cardiovascular problems? | A healthy diet and plenty of excercise
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| What are the leading causes of death in the United States? | Heart diseases
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| What is fatty buildup in blood vessels called? | Astherosclerosis
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| What is abnormally high blood pressure called? | Hypertension
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| What is brain damage caused by damage to blood vessels called? | Stroke
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| What is a condition caused by the death of heart muscle cells called? | Heart attack
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| What can happen when blood supply to the heart is blocked? | Heart attack
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| How many liters of blood does an adult body have? | 5
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| What are the four components of blood? | Plasma, red blood cells, platelets, white blood cells
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| What is the fluid part called? | Plasma
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| What do red blood cells do? | Take oxygen to every cell in your body
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| To what does hemoglobin cling? | Oxygen
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| What forms a plug to reduce blood loss when you start bleeding? | Platelets
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| What two things do white blood cells do? | Destroy pathogens and clean wounds
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| What do pathogens include? | Bacteria, viruses, and other microscopic organisms
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| What do white blood cells do to fights pathogens? | Destroy pathogens or release antibodies
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| What destroys dead or damaged body cells? | White blood cells
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| What does blood help to regulate? | Body temperature
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| What happens when body temperatures rise? | Blood vessels in the skin enlarge
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| What is the force the blood exerts on the walls of the arteries called? | Blood pressure
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| When is systolic pressure measured? | When the ventricles contract
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| When is the diastolic pressure measured? | When the ventricles relax
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| What are two organs that can be damaged by high blood pressure? | The heart and the kidney
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| To what does a blood type refer? | Chemicals called antigens on red blood cells
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| What kind of antibodies does a person with type A blood have? | Type B
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