Parts
What is the small flap of tissue that prevents blood from flowing backward?
What is the valve
What vessel carry blood from the heart to all the parts of the body?
What is the arteries
List three things to do to stay healthy.
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What is the blood cell that helps fight disease and infection?
What is a white blood cell
How many kidneys do most people have?
What is 2
What part of your heart pumps blood to your lungs?
What is the right side
What is the the smallest blood vessels; connect the arteries and veins?
What is a capillary
Where do the pulmonary arteries and veins carry blood?
What is to the lungs and back to the heart
What is the liquid part of blood that dissolves proteins, sugars, and nutrients?
What is plasma
What gas passes into the capillaries and is carried away by the blood?
What is Carbon Dioxide
Which side of your heart pumps blood to the rest of the body?
What is the Left side
What vessel carries blood from the body back to the heart?
What is a vein
What is the transfer of one person's blood to another person?
What is a blood transfusion
What carries oxygen to all parts of the body; has a concave shape and is able to squeeze through capillaries?
What is a red blood cell
what is a special machine that can read the electrical signals made by your pacemaker?
What is an EKG - Electrocardiogram
What are the parts of the circulatory system?
What are the heart, blood vessels, and blood?
What is the the largest artery in the body?
What is the aorta
List some body organs that work with the circulatory system to remove waste products.
the skin, lungs, and kidneys
What is small fragment of a cell that helps form blood clots?
What is a platelet
Who the first to understand how blood circulates throughout the body?
Who is William Harvey
What is the group of cells that sends electric currents to the heart and makes sure the heart beats at a steady pace?
What is the pacemaker
What are the largest veins in the body?
What is the Vena Cava
List the three jobs of the blood.
*to transport substances around the body
*to help keep the body's temperature at 37 degrees C or 98.6 degrees F
*to help defend the body against infections and diseases
A, B, AB, and O
Who discovered why blood transfusions did not always work - blood is not all the same and several types exist?
Who is Karl Landsteiner