Liquid of Life
Travel Routes
Pump It Up
In n Out
Et cetera
100
These help blood clot when you cut yourself.
What are platelets?
100
The circulatory system has about 60,000 miles of these tubes.
What are blood vessels?
100
The organ that pumps blood through the cardiovascular system.
What is the heart?
100
The largest artery of the body
What is the aorta?
100
When you feel this, you're feeling the expansion and contraction of an artery wall.
What is a pulse?
200
These cells help fight infection.
What are white blood cells?
200
Thick-walled tubes that carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
200
The chamber that receives oxygen-poor blood from all over the body.
What is the right atrium?
200
A flap of tissue that keeps blood from flowing in the wrong direction
What is a valve?
200
The medical term for high blood pressure
What is hypertension?
300
These cells carry oxygen and carbon dioxide throughout the body.
What are red blood cells?
300
Tubes in the circulatory system that carry blood back to the heart.
What are veins?
300
The chamber that receives oxygen-rich blood from the lungs.
What is the left atrium?
300
The blood vessel that brings oxygen-poor blood back to the heart
What is the vena cava?
300
To keep your heart healthy, you should avoid foods that are high in saturated fat and this.
What is sodium?
400
This is a yellowish liquid made mostly of water.
What is plasma?
400
Tiny tubes with thin walls, through which oxygen can pass from blood to the body's cells.
What are capillaries?
400
The chambers that pump blood out of the heart.
What are the ventricles?
400
The blood vessel that takes oxygen-poor blood away from the heart to the lungs
What is the pulmonary artery?
400
Atherosclerosis, or the buildup of fatty material on the artery walls, is a dangerous health condition that can lead to a heart attack or this.
What is a stroke?
500
Red blood cells contain this protein, which binds to oxygen.
What is hemoglobin?
500
The number of layers in the wall of an artery.
What is 3?
500
The group of cells that adjust the speed of the heart.
What is the pacemaker?
500
The blood vessel that carries oxygen-rich blood back to the heart.
What is the pulmonary vein?
500
A waste product carried by the circulatory system
What is carbon dioxide?
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