HKR 2311 Final: HKR2311 - Final Exam Review

• School: Memorial University
• Department: Human Kinetics and Recreation
• Course: HKR 2311
• Professor: Jon Reid& Dan Hodgson

Document Summary

Describe the two circuits from which bloods flow throughout the body: blood flows through a network of blood vessels that extend between the heart and peripheral tissues. Those blood vessels make up a pulmonary circuit, which carries blood to and from the gas exchange surfaces of the lungs, and the systemic circuit, which transports blood to and from the rest of the body. Which vessels carry blood away from and to the heart: arteries, or efferent vessels, carry blood away from the heart. List the four chambers of the heart and the region they either receive or send blood: the heart has four muscular chambers, two associated with each circuit. The right atrium receives blood from the systemic circuit and passes it to the right ventricle, which them pumps blood into the pulmonary circuit. The left atrium collects blood from the pulmonary circuit and empties it into the left ventricle, which pumps blood into the systemic circuit.