What side of the heart carries deoxygenated blood?

What side of the heart carries oxygenated blood?

What is in the heart and veins that stop the back-flow of blood?

What is the biggest artery in the body?

What transports oxygenated blood into the heart?

What is the section at the top of the heart called (either the left or the right...)?

What is at the bottom section of the heart called (either the left or the right...)?

What sort of muscles make up the heart?

What are three adaptions of the heart?

Where does blood become oxygenated?

In what direction do arteries carry blood?

(Except the pulmonary artery) what type of blood do the arteries carry?

Name 3 adaptions of the arteries.

What direction do the veins carry blood in?

(Except the pulmonary vein) what type of blood do the veins transport?

Explain 2 adaptions of the veins.

Explain 3 adaptions of the capillaries.

Can diffusion happen through a partially permeable membrane?

Define diffusion.

During ventilation, why is some oxygen wasted?

Define osmosis.

What can slow the effect of osmosis and why?

Define active transport.

Why do cells in the gut use active transport to absorb nutrients?

Compare osmosis, AT and diffusion.

Name the four components of blood.

Where does carbon dioxide go before it reaches the lungs?

Explain the adaptions of red blood cells.

When combined, what does oxygen and haemoglobin make?

Describe the function of the white blood cells.

Describe the function of the platelets.