Blood Cells
Platelets, white, and red
What are the 3 types of blood cell?
Veins, arteries, and capillaries
What are the types of blood vessel?
These are the two upper chambers of the heart.
What are the atria?
The size of the heart. (compared to a body part)
What is your fist?
This is how fast an adult heart beats.
What is 60-100 beats per minute?
These blood cells fight against infection
What are white blood cells?
These blood vessels bring blood back toward the heart from the rest of the body?
What are veins?
Because they do NOT pump blood out to the lungs and the rest of the body, these chambers have much thinner walls than the lower chambers.
What are the atria?
This is a voluntary muscle.
What are biceps, hamstrings, calves, etc?
This sea creature has 3 hearts.
What is an octopus?
These blood cells carry oxygen through the body.
What are red blood cells?
These blood vessels carry oxygen-rich blood away from the heart to the rest of the body.
What are arteries?
These are the two lower chambers of the heart.
What are the ventricles?
Blood travels to this organ to pick up oxygen.
What are your lungs?
This animal's heart is in its head.
What is a shrimp?
These blood cells make your blood clot and prevent infection from entering the body.
What are platelets?
These tiny, thin-walled blood vessels allow oxygen and nutrients to pass from the blood into the body's cells.
What are capillaries?
They do the heavy lifting by pumping blood out of the heart to the lungs and the rest of the body.
What are the ventricles?
The average human body has this much blood.
How much is about 9 pints, or a little over a gallon?
This is how platelets and white blood cells differ.
Why do platelets prevent infection from coming in, while white blood cells fight infection already in the body?
This is the liquid part of your blood that carries blood cells, nutrients, and other substances.
What is plasma?
What is 4?
The heart is made of this type of muscle that works without you having to think about it.
What is an involuntary muscle?
This animal's heart weighs about 400 lbs and is the size of a bumper car!
What is special about a blue whale heart?