Circulatory system
What system helps deliver oxygen and nutrients to working muscles?
The Circulatory
What muscular organ pumps blood around the body?
The heart.
What transports oxygen and nutrients around the body?
Blood.
What blood vessels carry blood away from the heart?
Arteries.
Which part of the circulatory system pumps blood?
The heart.
What system helps remove waste products from working muscles?
The Circulatory System
What does the heart pump around the body?
Blood.
What does blood transport?
Oxygen, nutrients, and other substances.
What blood vessels carry blood toward the heart?
Veins.
Which part carries oxygen, nutrients, and other substances?
Blood.
What two things does the circulatory system deliver to working muscles?
Oxygen and nutrients
Is the heart a muscular organ or a blood vessel?
A muscular organ.
What does blood carry as waste products?
Waste products.
What are the tiny blood vessels where exchange occurs?
Capillaries.
Which vessels carry blood away from the heart?
Arteries.
What does the circulatory system help remove from working muscles?
waste products
What organ is responsible for pumping blood around the body?
The heart.
Name three things blood transports.
Oxygen, nutrients, and other substances.
Which blood vessel carries blood away from the heart, and which carries blood toward it?
Arteries carry blood away; veins carry blood toward the heart.
Which vessels carry blood toward the heart?
Which vessels carry blood toward the heart?
What is the main job of the circulatory system according to these notes?
To deliver oxygen and nutrients to working muscles and remove waste products.
What is the heart's main function?
To pump blood around the body
What does blood transport and what does it carry as waste?
It transports oxygen, nutrients, and other substances and carries waste products.
What happens in the capillaries?
Exchange of oxygen, nutrients, and waste occurs.
Which tiny blood vessels are the place where oxygen, nutrients, and waste are exchanged?
Capillaries