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23 Cards in this Set
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Blood travels around the body in what? |
Blood vessels. |
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What does blood vessels enable you to do |
Your blood to go from one place to another |
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Another name for blood vessels |
Arteries |
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Another blood vessel but with thinner walls |
Veins |
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Smallest blood vessels |
Capillaries |
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What does capillaries do |
Carry oxygen and nutrients into cells and remove wastes like carbon dioxide |
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Red blood cells are known as |
ErythrocytesErythrocytes |
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White blood cells are known as |
Leucocytes |
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What contains iron in red blood cells |
Haemoglobin |
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What does haemoglobin do |
Carry oxygen around your body |
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What does white blood cells do |
Fight bacteria and diseases |
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What takes blood away from our heart |
Arteries |
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Takes blood to our heart |
Veins |
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Two sides of our heart contains ....? |
Oxygenated and deoxygenated blood |
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List all four chambers of the heart |
Left atrium right atrium left ventricle right ventricle |
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Prevent blood from flowing backwards |
Valves |
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Electrical activity to tell us a persons heart |
Electrocardiogram |
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Air is...? |
Oxygen and carbon dioxide |
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Air moves into a large narrow tube |
Trachea |
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Top of trachea is ...? |
Epiglottis |
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What does the epiglottis do |
Stops food from going into our lungs |
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Tiny air sacs.. |
Alveoli |
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Smaller tubes in our lungs |
Bronchioles |
