The purpose of your cardiovascular system is to ________.

• Produce hormones that function as chemical messengers through the body

• Bring oxygen into the body and send CO2 out of the body

• Send, receive, and interpret electrical impulses

• Transport blood to and from every living cell in the body

• Rid the body of waste products, such as urea and excess vitamins

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NGSS.HS-LS1-3

What is your heart made of?

• Dense irregular connective tissue

• Smooth muscle

• Cardiac muscle

• Skeletal muscle

• Dense regular connective tissue

What is the difference between an artery and a vein?

• Arteries carry blood away from the heart; veins vacuum blood to the heart

• Arteries carry blood to the heart; veins carry blood away from the heart

• Arteries deliver blood to the lungs; veins deliver blood to the body cells

• Arteries deliver blood to the body cells; veins deliver blood to the lungs

What percent of our human blood volume is plasma?

• 45%

• 25%

• 90%

• Less than 1%

• 55%

Blood is a type of ________ tissue.

Deoxygenated blood appears ________.

Which vocabulary term matches this definition: a series of reactions that stops the bleeding when a blood vessel wall breaks; provides time for the blood vessel to heal itself.

• Phagocytosis

• Erythropoiesis

• Hemopoiesis

• Hemostasis

If a person lacked fibrin, which process would they struggle with?

• Clotting of blood

• Binding of oxygen to red-blood cells

• Delivery of oxygen to our body cells

• Destruction of pathogens in the blood

• Production of new blood cells

What are the steps of hemostasis IN ORDER

• Vascular spasm, coagulation, platelet plug formation

• Vascular spasm, aggregation, platelet plug formation

• Vascular spasm, platelet plug formation, coagulation

• Vascular spasm, hemostasis, coagulation

What are the leukocytes of the body from most abundant to least abundant?

• Neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, eosinophils, basophils

• Neutrophils, lymphocytes, eosinophils, basophils, monocytes

• Neutrophils, lymphocytes, monocytes, basophils, eosinophils

• Neutrophils, lymphocytes, basophils, monocytes, eosinophils