Blood
What two types of blood cells are there?
White blood cells and red blood cells
What is it called when you measure how fast and hard blood pumps throughout the body?
Blood pressure
True or false: Ventricles and arteries are thinner than veins and atria.
False, veins and atria are thinner than ventricles and arteries
What is blood pressure?
It is how fast and hard your blood pumps to other parts of the body
What carries oxygen and nutrients around the body?
Blood
True or false: blood is oxygenated when it returns from the lungs
True
Oxygenated blood moves from the heart out to the...
Body
Your heart is connected to the rest of your body by...
Blood vessels
What would starve your body of oxygen?
Low blood pressure
What color blood cell plays a key role in transporting oxygen throughout the body?
Red
What does your blood carry around your body?
Oxygen and nutrients
True
loop one of the double loop system goes to...
lungs
Why is low blood pressure dangerous?
Blood cannot reach your head
after blood picks up oxygen, the blood moves to...
The heart
Red blood cells can be different shades of red. What does a red blood cell's color depend on?
Its oxygen levels
What are valves?
Flaps in the heart that let blood in and out of a ventricle
Why are veins and atria smaller than ventricles and arteries?
They are farther away from the heart so, they don't get as much pressure put on them
Why is high blood pressure dangerous?
Your veins can burst because your blood is hitting harder on your veins
where does deoxygenated blood go?
back to the heart
What is the reason that red blood cells are red?
Hemoglobin
What is one (of the most common) heart disease you can get?
Possible Answers: Heart attack, stroke, heart failure, arrhythmia, or heart valve complications
loop one of the double loop system goes too...
body
What is normal blood pressure?
Normal blood pressure is when the systolic is less than 120 and the Diastolic is less than 80.
What does the circulatory system do?
It brings oxygen and nutrients to cells and removes waste products