Blood
What are the 4 blood types?
Red Blood, White Blood, Platelets, and Plasma.
What is the heart
The heart is a muscle
What do veins carry?
Veins don’t have to carry highly pressurized blood, but they do have to carry large volumes of deoxygenated blood back to your heart.
How can you get your heart rate up?
You can get your heart rate up by doing any type of running or any sport.
How does your oxygen get to your cells?
Your cells get oxygen from your heart.
What do white blood cells do?
They are the body's defense team that fight off germs and infections by destroying them.
What does the heart do?
It contracts and releases deoxygenated and oxygenated blood, it also sends oxygen to your cells.
What do veins do?
Viens carry blood to the heart
How can you get your blood pressure up?
You can get your blood pressure up by doing push-ups or any muscle-building activities.
How do oxygen and nutrients get to organ tissues?
Oxygen and nutrients from the blood can move through the walls and get into organs and tissues.
What are platelets?
These are small fragments that clump together to form a clot.
The blood enters the interior vena cava or the Aorta.
What do arteries do?
They carry blood away from the blood
What is blood pressure?
Blood pressure is like your pulse. It is created when your heart contracts.
Where do the oxygen and nutrients go?
They get delivered to the cells and throughout the body that needs them.
What do Red Blood Cells contain and what does it do?
They contain proteins called hemoglobin which grabs oxygen from your lungs
What connects the heart to the rest of your body?
It is connected through a system of vessels
What is the main difference between Veins and Arteries?
Arteries carry blood away from the heart but veins carry blood to the heart
Heart rate is also like your pulse. It is the count of how many your heart beats.
What allows oxygen and nutrients to pass through to body cells?
Cappilaries which are arteries that are broke into smaller vessels that help them pass through to body cells.
What is plasma and what does it do?
It is the watery part of the blood. It carries important things like nutrients and protein.
The heart plays a big role in the circulatory system what are some of the roles?
It pumps oxygen to your cell and makes sure you don't die. It also has a never-ending job of pumping deoxygenated blood and oxygenated.
What are veins and arteries?
Veins and arteries are a part of the vessel type of system.
What is the difference between your heart rate and blood pressure?
Your blood pressure is when your heart contracts but heart rate is the amount of which your heart pumps.
What organ carries oxygen and nutrients?
The heart every time it beats or pumps it sends out blood that contains oxygen and nuitrents.