transporting cells that attack disease-causing microorganisms
carrying oxygen, glucose, and other needed materials to cells
carrying waste products away from cells
What is an example of the function of the cardiovascular system?
100
Hypertension
What is blood pressure is consistently higher than normal.
100
foods high in fat
What is can lead to atherosclerosis
100
measures blood pressure
What is a sphygmomanometer?
200
capillaries
What vessels are materials exchanged between the blood and the body cells?
200
arteries
What is blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart
200
Blood
What is needed to carry substances to the body cells
300
clotting of blood
If a person’s blood lacked platelets, what process could not take place?
300
red blood cells
Which component of blood carries oxygen to the body cells?
300
The force with which the ventricles contract.
What causes blood pressure?
400
It returns to the blood through the lymphatic system.
What eventually happens to fluid that leaks from capillaries into the surrounding tissues?
400
type A
What is the blood type of a person whose plasma contains only anti-B clumping proteins?
400
marker molecules on red blood cells.
Blood types are determined by?
500
Exercise is important for cardiovascular health because