Visit the following site regarding Blood
and Body Defenses. Use the information as a review for blood and its activities. Be sure to look at the various images embedded within the notes.
In the section that talks about some
important characteristics of White Blood Cells (particularly neutrophils) click on phagocytosis to see it in action. View
the various YouTube videos.
Click on
thrombocytes and listen to the talk on hemostasis. Click on
video about Thrombus and embolus.
Watch
Blood Flow through the Heart.
Learn about your blood pressure.
This site, Anatomy
of Human Circulatory System,
is part of a giant online textbook site and would be helpful for almost any information about biological subjects about which you need to know up-to-date information.
Section II.
The Virtual Body – visit the four sites.
Have some fun and follow this animation through the digestive system and carbohydrate digestion.
A quick animation on breathing.Lots of others are also available at this site.
Visit
the Respiratory and Urinary System tutorials
Section III.
Physics
in Medicine. Go to Flash Site; Click on Begin and visit the four Sections Label the
diagram of the heart. Use the following terms: right atrium, left atrium, right
ventricle, left ventricle, vena cavae, pulmonary veins, pulmonary arteries, and
aorta. Describe,
in list form, the path of blood as it enters the heart from the systemic
circulation. Use the terminology above to follow the path. Indicate which blood
is oxygenated and which is deoxygenated. What is
atherosclerosis and what can it lead to? Label the
diagram of the urinary system: kidney, ureters, bladder, and urethra. Explain the
job of the kidney – what does it filter and what does it maintain?
Here is another site showing the blood flow.
This information about the
Heartbeat is from the same site.
