respiratory system muscles - answerdiaphragm and intercostal muscles which
contract to expand lungs
Chemoreceptors respond to - answerChemical interaction (smell and taste)
Hyperventilation increases blood pH during - answeracidosis (low pH)
Medulla Oblongata - answerArea in brain where breathing process
is controlled -monitors levels of carbon dioxide
Slow breathing decreases blood pH during - answeralkalosis (high pH)
Circulatory system - answer-Heart
-Blood
-Blood vessels
Blood is slowest in - answerCapillary beds
Blood consists of - answerRBCs, WBCs, platelets, plasma
Plasma properties - answer-contributes to more than half the volume of blood
-consists of proteins, glucose, amino acids, ions, hormones, and dissolved gasses
,circulatory system function - answer(aka cardiovascular system) This system
works as the transportation highway for the body. It transports substances such as
oxygen, carbon dioxide, and nutrients in the body.
RBC are made in - answerred bone marrow
Platelets - answerfragments of stem cells serve in blood clotting
Cardiac Cycle: Diastole - answerrelaxation phase (blood passively flows through
atrium, tricuspid valve and into ventricle)
Cardiac Cycle: Systole - answerVentricles
contract -Blood pushes against AV valves
and they shut
-Blood pushes through semilunar valves into aorta and pulmonary trunk
The heart is self exciting meaning... - answerneeding no external stimuli
right side of heart - answerpumps blood to the lungs
left side of heart - answeroxygenated blood pumps to the body
Pulmonary arteries - answercarry deoxygenated blood out of the right ventricle and
into the lungs
pulmonary veins - answercarry the oxygenated blood from the lungs into the
left atrium of the heart
, Blood is spread from ascending aorta branches to the - answer-Carotid arteries
(Face)
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