Basics
This body system delivers oxygen and nutrients while also removing waste from cells.
What is the circulatory system.
This organ pumps blood throughout your body.
What is the heart.
These cells give blood its red colour.
What are red blood cells.
This blood component increases when you get sick.
What are white blood cells.
These vessels carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries.
These tiny vessels connect arteries to veins.
what are capillaries
These three parts make up the circulatory system.
What is the heart, blood vessels, and blood
There are ______ chambers in the heart.
What is four.
This straw-colored liquid makes up 55% of your blood.
What is plasma
This is the most common type of blood cell found in the human body.
What are red blood cells.
These blood vessels carry blood back to the heart.
What are veins.
These are the smallest of the three types of blood vessels.
What are capillaries.
This is carried away from cells by the circulatory system.
What is waste.
These chambers are the first to fill with blood from the body.
What are the atria
These large blood cells help fight germs.
What are white blood cells.
This blood cell accounts for only 1% of cells in your blood.
What are white blood cells.
These structures open and close to keep blood moving the right way.
What are valves.
This artery is the largest in the body.
What is the aorta.
These two things are carried to cells through the blood.
What is oxygen and nutrients.
These chambers are responsible for pumping blood to the lungs and body.
What are the ventricles.
These tiny pieces help your blood clot (stop bleeding).
What are platelets.
This blood component is mostly water.
What is plasma.
The three main types of blood vessels, from largest to smallest are
Arteries (largest), veins, capillaries (smallest)
This vein is the only vein in the blood that carries oxygen rich blood.
The pulmonary vein.
This part of the heart is the most muscular.
What is the left ventricle.
This middle section of the heart ensures the blood from the right side does not mix with blood from the left side.
The is the septum.
These cells carry oxygen to your body’s cells.
What are red blood cells.
This part of blood carries dissolved waste.
What is plasma.
Most of the blood vessels in your body are these.
Capillaries.
This artery is the only artery in the human body that does not contain oxygen rich blood.
What is the pulmonary artery.