Blood
What are the 4 major blood components?
Red blood cells, plasma, white blood cells, and platelets.
What is the double loop system?
The double loop system is 2 loops one from the heart to the lungs and one from the heart to the rest of the body.
What are the blood vessels?
Veins, capillaries, and arteries
What are activities that might increase your heart rate?
Sports
What is one of the main functions of the circulatory system?
To move materials like nutrients and oxygen
What does plasma do?
Plasma is the watery part of the blood where all the other blood cells float around. It carries important things like nutrients and proteins throughout the body.
How does the heart pump blood out through the body?
The heart works by compressing and releasing the blood to the rest of your body by using the double loop system and veins/arteries.
What do veins do?
Take blood into the heart.
What effects your heart rate?
Your diet, sleep, or physical condition.
Red blood cells............ Throughout the body.
oxygen
What does platelets do?
Small cell fragments come together to form a clot when you get a cut, preventing the blood from leaking too much.
Where does the blood go into the heart?
Vena Cava
What do arteries do?
Take blood away from the heart
What can cause high blood pressure?
Your sleep or diet
What is responible for delivering oxygen throughout the body?
red blood cells
What do red blood cells?
These are tiny cells that look red because they contain a protein called hemoglobin, which grabs oxygen from your lungs and delivers it to the rest of your body.
What does the blood travel through?
Blood vessel
What do capillaries do?
Capillaries are tiny blood vessels where substances are exchanged between the blood and the body cells.
What is your heart rate?
The number of time your heart beats per min
blood transport........ throughout the body
nutroients
What do white blood cells do?
These are like the body's defense team, biting up germs and infections by identifying and destroying them.
What are the 2 types of blood?
Oxygenated and deoxygenated blood
What are the veins, arteries, and capillaries part of?
The double loop system.
What is an average blood pressure?
90-120
What makes the transport of nutrients and oxygen possible
vessels