Blood
What component of the blood carries oxygen and nutrients
Red blood cells
Why does the heart work so hard
Because it had to transport all the blood throughout every part of the body
veins carry blood _____ the heart
Veins carry blood to the heart
What are the two main causes for high blood pressure
Obesity/poor diet
smoking
What exchanges nutrients
capilaries
what are the "fighters of the immune system."
The white blood cells
What side of the heart stores deoxygenated blood
The left side
Arteries carry blood ____ the heart
An irregular heart rate/rhythm can cause what......
Heart attack
What carries oxygen and nutrients
Red blood cells
What is the name for small cell fragments that cause blood clots and prevent you from bleeding out
Platelets
What side of the heart stores oxygenated blood
The right side
Veins and Arteries connect using what
capillaries
What causes an increase in heart rate
Exercise
There are two major types of oxygen in the circulatory system, what are they
Deoxygenated and oxygenated blood
What is the "watery part of blood." that carries important nutrients and proteins throughout the blood
Plasma
What part of the heart pushes blood up into the arteries
The ventricals
They both carry oxygenated and deoxygenated blood
True or False
True
What causes high blood pressure
Not getting enough activity
Nutrients are carried in what kind of system
The double loop system
Why is blood so important
It carries nutrients and oxygen to the cells
The heart does what motion when it transports blood
It squeezes in and out
Arteries are more muscular than veins
True or False
True
What causes low heart rate
relaxing and not doing physical activity
True or false
every single time blood goes in a loop your body has to replace the old blood
False