Heart, blood vessels & blood tier 3 Vocab

One of the arteries that supplies the heart muscle with oxygen and glucose so that it can continually respire and therefore contract.

• pulmonary vein

• aorta

• coronary artery

• vena cava

A form of heart disease in which one or more of the coronary arteries become blocked, depriving the heart muscle of oxygen.

• cancer

• coronary heart disease

• pulmonary lung diesease

• diabetes

The upper heart chambers which collect blood returning from the body are....

• vena cava

• aorta

• ventricle

• atria / atrium

In the heart, the ............... are the lower chambers which pump the blood away from the heart

• atria

• ventricles

• valve

• muscle

Blood vessel that returns blood to the heart from lungs

• pulmonary vein

• vena cava

• pulmonary artery

• aorta

Blood vessel in heart that carries oxygenated blood to the body

• pulmonary vein

• pulmomary artey

• vena cava

• aorta

Double circulatory systems .....

• send blood through the heart twice

• send blood through the heart once

• send blood through the lungs twice

• send blood through the lungs once

The pacemaker is

• a group of cells in the right atrium wall that controls heart rate

• a group of cells in the left atrium wall that controls heart rate

• a group of organs in the right atrium wall that controls heart rate

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-3

definition of a ..................................... is a blood vessel that carries blood away from heart

• artery

• vein

• capillary

Definition of a vein is that it carries blood ............ the heart

• around

• into

• away from

• towards