Parts of the Circulatory System
What are three functions of the circulatory system?
3. pick wastes to take back to lungs
What type of blood vessel carries blood away from the heart?
arteries
Which type of blood cell carries oxygen?
red blood cells
How is your blood type determined?
It depends on the blood type of your parents.
Blood comes from the body and enters the
(right or left) atrium of the heart.
right
Blood carries __________ and __________ to the cells of the body.
nutrients oxygen
What type of blood vessel carries blood to the heart?
veins
Which type of blood cell fights infections?
white blood cells
What does it mean that someone with blood type AB is the universal receiver?
AB blood type can receive blood from all others.
Blood passes through the right (ventricle or atrium) before going to the lungs.
Hint: It is the second chamber.
ventricle
What are the three parts of the circulatory system?
What are the blood, blood vessels, heart?
What type of blood vessel connects arteries to veins?
capillaries
The part of blood that is mostly water is called __________.
plasma
While in the lungs, blood picks up __________ and gets rid of ___________ _____________.
oxygen carbon dioxide
Blood carries __________ ____________ and ___________ away from the cells of the body.
carbon dioxide, wastes
This vessel ___________ has thick muscular walls because it transports blood away from the heart so the pump is strong.
artery
______________ help clot blood and stop bleeding.
platelets
What does it mean that blood type O is the universal donor?
That someone with O blood type can donate to all others.
Blood comes from the lungs and enters the left
(atrium or ventricle).
Hint: It is the first chamber on the left.
atrium
Name the four chambers of the heart:
left atrium, left ventricle, right atrium, right ventricle
In the body, this vessel __________ has thin walls with valves because the heart's pump is not as strong.
vein
New blood cells are produced in _________ ____________.
long bones or bone marrow
Name the eight different blood types including the Rh type, positive or negative.
A+, A-, B+, B-, AB+, AB-, O+, O-
Which part of the heart pumps the oxygenated blood out to the body (aorta or superior vena cava) ?
aorta