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What is the circulatory system made up?
It is made up of the heart, blood vessels, and blood.
Why do we need to check our blood pressure?
We need to check your blood pressure to make sure that your circulatory system is working properly.
What is the heart rate?
Your pulse, or heart rate, indicates how often your heart squeezes to pump blood through your body.
Why is the blood's job?
To deliver nutrients from food and oxygen to the cells in organs, muscles, bones, and nerves.
To pick up waste materials from the cells in your body and carry that waste to organs that can process it.
What is the spleen?
It is another cleansing organ that helps filter blood and remove harmful wastes.
What is another name for the trachea?
Another day for the trachea is windpipe.
What is blood pressure?
Blood Pressure is the pushing force, caused by the pumping heart, that moves blood through the body.
How does smoking affect your lungs?
Explain using your own words.
What are TWO WAYS to help your heart stay healthy?
Explain using your own words.
What do the respiratory and circulatory systems do?
The respiratory and circulatory systems work together to deliver oxygen and nutrients to cells throughout the body.
What are capillaries?
Capillaries are smaller blood vessels that connect arteries and veins.
What do we inhale and exhale?
When you inhale (breathe in), air enters your lungs, and oxygen from that air moves to your blood. At the same time, carbon dioxide, a waste gas, moves from your blood to the lungs and is exhaled (breath out).
What is the liver?
It is the LARGEST ORGAN inside your body. It breaks down dead cells and reuses what it can as nutrients.
Does everybody have the same blood type?
Explain in your own words.
How does air enter your lungs?
Air goes into your body through your nose and mouth.
How does the blood get clean?
The liver breaks down waste into relatively harmless substances that it then releases from the body.
How many chambers does the heart have?
Four chambers
What are the names of the chambers?
Right atrium, right ventricle, left atrium, and left ventricle.
What are the lungs?
The lungs are two inflatable sacs inside your chest. They are the main organs of the respiratory system.
What is the heart?
It is a hollow muscle about as big as your fist that pumps blood to all parts of your body.
What are arteries?
Arteries are blood vessels that carry oxygen-rich blood away from your heart.
What are red blood cells?
RED BLOOD CELLS (about 25 trillion in your body), contain hemoglobin, which does the work of carrying oxygen and carbon dioxide.
What are platelets?
PLATELETS are tiny solids in the blood.
Their job is to help stop bleeding.
They make blood coagulate or get thicker, so a scab develops, protecting the wound while it heals.
What are veins?
Veins are blood vessels that carry blood back to your heart and lungs for more oxygen.
What are white blood cells?
White blood cells are like a special forces team that travels in the blood to protect and fight any infection in your body system.