Review Questions for Blood/Circulation
  1. Blood and Circulation ReviewDraw and label the heart.
  2. What is the purpose of blood? 
  3. What functions does it have? (list all)
  4. What are the different components of blood?  Draw and label a centrifuged tube of blood.
  5. What is hemoglobin? What element does it contain?
  6. What color is blood that is rich in oxygen?
  7. Where do red blood cells originate?
  8. List the 4 basic blood types and antigens/antibodies in each.
  9. If you had blood type O+, what antigens do you have?
  10. What antibodies in plasma do you have?
  11. What types can you donate to?
  12. What types can you receive blood from?
  13. Which is the universal donor?  and universal recipient?
  14. What can happen if a mother is Rh- and she marries an Rh+ (homozygous dominant) man and they plan to have children? (use terms like sensitization, 1st and 2nd child, erythroblastosis fetalis or hemolytic disease of the newborn). What can prevent this?
  15. What is the structure, function, and differences between arteries, veins, arterioles, venules, and capillaries  (make a little data table)
  16.  

    Structure

    (thickness, etc.)

    Function

    (purpose)

    Differences (use words: has/doesn’t have, similar to, etc.)

    Arteries

     

     

     

    Veins

     

     

     

    Arterioles

     

     

     

    Venules

     

     

     

    Capillaries

     

     

     

  17. Remember, Arteries move blood Away from the heart!  Veins have Valves!

  18. Describe the pulmonary and systemic circuits.
  19. What are stem cells?
  20. What is cardiovascular disease?  What are some main/most common diseases?
  21. What is a coronary artery?
  22. What is a stroke?
  23. Where does heartbeat originate? How? (describe our pacemaker system)
  24. Know about blood pressure:  what's normal? where is highest pressure in the body? lowest?
  25. What is the involvement between blood and interstitial fluid?
  26. Define these terms: plasma, platelets, lymphocytes, antigens, fibrin, hemoglobin, antibodies, anemia, leukemia
  27. Starting with the right atrium, trace the flow of blood through the circulatory system (through heart, then through body)
  28. Now do the self quiz at the end of the chapter.