Circulatory System Parts
These blood cells carry oxygen to the cells of the body and carry carbon dioxide away.
Red Blood Cells
There are ____ main chambers of the heart.
Four
This is the control centre of the body.
Brain
Frontal Lobe
The heart squeezes about once every ______.
second
These blood cells help fight infection.
White blood cells.
These are the chambers on the top of each side of the heart.
Atriums (atria)
This connects the brain to the spinal cord.
Brainstem
This lobe governs speech and language recognition and is near the back of the brain.
Temporal Lobe
The circulatory system carries these two important things to all the cells in the body.
Oxygen and nutrients
These help to thicken the blood and clot it if you get cut.
Platelets
These chambers are on the bottom half of the heart.
Ventricles
Electrical pulses flow up and down this column between the brain and the nerves
Spinal cord
This lobe processes information from the senses, like touch, taste, and pain and is at the top near the middle of the brain.
Parietal Lobe
There are over this many nerve cells in your brain alone!
100 billion
These vessels take blood away from the heart.
Arteries
While most arteries carry oxygenated blood, this artery is an exception and takes deoxygenated blood to the lungs.
Pulmonary artery
These are like tiny wires that carry messages between your brain and the rest of your body.
Nerves
This lobe is at the very back of the brain and processes what your eyes see.
Occipital Lobe
Reflexes are an example of this type of function that your body that your body does without thinking.
Involuntary functions.
These vessels take blood to the heart.
Veins
Aorta
These are also called neurons
Nerve cells
This part is tucked under the back of the two halves of the brain and coordinates movement of your muscles.
Cerebellum
If you are "right brained" it means you are more this.
Creative/intuitive