Parts of Bood
The most common type of blood cell in your blood. They contain another substance that carries oxygen to the rest of your body. Red blood cells are red becuase of the prevously mentioned other substance.
What are red blood cells?
This pumps blood throughout your body. You do not control it consciously.
What is a heart?
These two upper chambers recieve blood and pump it down to the next chambers. These are the weakest chambers as they are not responsible for pumping blood through the rest of the body.
What are the atriums?
This watery liquid makes up 55% of your blood and contains water, salts, enzymes, antibiotics, and other proteins. You can even donate it twice a week!
What is plasma?
What are the lungs?
These lower chambers are the strongest in your heart and are responsible for pumping blood to the rest of the body.
What are the ventricles?
These fight off diseases, eat bacteria, and make and release antibodies for your body.
What are white blood cells?
These are used to transport blood back to the heart. They are thin because they do not need to hold up to lots of pressure from the heart.
What are veins?
Unlike the other arteries in your body, this artery carries deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs.
What is the pulmonary artery?
These are small scattered specks that appear in your blood that help with blood clotting.
What are platelets?
These are thick and strong to hold up to the pressures of transporting blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
Under the left atrium going into the left ventricle. This one way valve prevents blood from flowing backwards.
What is the Bicuspid valve.
this gives your red blood cells their red color and transport oxygen to the rest of your body.
What is hemoglobin?
These microscopic vessels are thin enough to facilitate the exchange of oxygen, nutrients, hormones, and waste between the blood and the body's many cells.
What are capillaries?
This is the final destination for blood in the heart.
What is the body?