Circulatory System
What is the circulatory system responsible for?
The circulatory system moves blood through the body using the heart, blood vessels, and blood.
What is the respiratory system responsible for?
The respiratory system brings oxygen into the body and removes carbon dioxide.
What is the digestive system responsible for?
The digestive system breaks down food so the body can use its nutrients.
After food is digested, nutrients enter the blood in the _______________. The ___________ system then carries those nutrients to all the body’s cells.
After food is digested, nutrients enter the blood in the small intestine. The circulatory system then carries those nutrients to all the body’s cells.
What is the function of the heart?
The heart pumps blood throughout the body using arteries and veins to carry blood.
What is the function of the trachea?
Air travels down the windpipe (trachea) into the lungs and reaches tiny air sacs called alveoli.
What is the function of the esophagus?
A tube that moves food into the stomach.
The _____________ system supplies the oxygen that cells need to use those nutrients to make energy.
The respiratory system supplies the oxygen that cells need to use those nutrients to make energy.
What is the function of arteries?
Arteries carry oxygen-rich blood away from the heart to the body
What is the function of the lungs?
The lungs absorb the oxygen from the air. This is where carbon dioxide and oxygen are exchanged.
What is the function of the stomach?
The stomach breaks down food with stomach acid and enzymes.
In addition to oxygen, the blood also picks up ___________ _____________, a waste product, from cells and brings it back to the lungs so it can be breathed out.
In addition to oxygen, the blood also picks up carbon dioxide, a waste product, from cells and brings it back to the lungs so it can be breathed out.
What is the function of veins?
Veins bring blood back to the heart. Blood carries oxygen, nutrients, and waste.
What are alveoli?
Tiny air sacs in lungs where gas (oxygen and carbon dioxide) exchange happens.
What is the function of the small intestine?
The small intestine is where most nutrients are absorbed into the blood through tiny finger-like parts called villi.
We take in _______ and __________ and get rid of waste and _________ __________ (a gas).
We take in food and oxygen and get rid of waste and carbon dioxide.
What helps stop the bleeding when you get a cut?
Platelets help stop bleeding when you get a cut.
What is the function of the diaphragm?
The diaphragm, a muscle under the lungs, moves down and up to help fill and empty the lungs.
What is the function of the large intestine?
The large intestine absorbs water and helps form solid waste that the body gets rid of.
What is the flow of the systems?
Ex. First, I eat food, it is carried by the digestive system in order to.....