Circulatory System
The major organ of the Circulatory System
What is the heart?
The blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
Which type of blood cell carries oxygen?
What are red blood cells?
The four components of blood.
What are red and white blood cells, plasma, and platelets?
Blood enters the body through the _______ _______ and enters the ________ atrium.
What are Vena Cava and Right Atrium?
It is the job of the circulatory system to transport ________ and oxygen to the cells of the body and collect _______ products.
What is food and waste?
The blood vessels that have one way valves to keep blood flowing towards the heart.
What are veins?
The blood cell that is the larger of the red and white.
What are White Blood Cells?
The watery part that makes up most of the blood.
What is plasma?
Bllood leaves the right ventricle and goes into the ________,
and out to the ____________.
What are the pulmonary artery and the lungs?
Blood carries ______ _______ and _____ away from the cells of the body.
What are carbon dioxide and waste?
The blood vessels that connect arteries to veins.
What are capillaries?
Creates antibodies to attack infections, viruses, and bacteria.
What are White Blood Cells?
The part of the blood that clots to stop bleeding.
What are platelets?
While in the _________, blood picks up __________, and gets rid of ___________ _______________.
What are lungs, oxygen, and carbon dioxide?
Name the blood vessels in the correct order from largest to smallest.
What are arteries, veins, and capillaries?
Oxygen molecules attach to the ______ in the red blood cells.
What is hemoglobin?
The two things that make blood return to the heart from the lower half of the body.
What are one way valves and the contraction of skeletal muscles?
Blood comes from the lungs through the ________ _______ and enter the left ____________.
What are pulmonary veins and atrium?
The three types of circulations of the Circulatory System
What are Coronary, Pulmonary, and Systemic?
Heart attacks are caused by
What are clogged arteries?
The place where new blood cells are produced?
What is bone marrow?
This should be done to stop the bleeding of a large cut.
What is apply pressure?
Blood moves from the left atrium to the _______ ________ and is pumped out through the __________.
What is the left ventricle and aorta?