Moving blood
What system connects all the other systems in your body?
The circulatory system.
Name something your blood transports.
Oxygen, carbon dioxide, nutrients.
What part of your blood is a liquid?
Plasma
You're looking at some blood that has oxygen in it. Is it dark or bright red?
Bright
What are the four main blood types?
A, B, AB, O.
What protects your body from invaders?
White blood cells.
What part of blood is solid and makes up 40% of the blood?
Red blood cells.
What in your red blood cells carried oxygen?
Hemoglobin.
You have type A blood. What kind of blood can you receive?
A and O.
What carries blood back to your heart?
What protects your body by sealing up holes in your body (from when you get hurt)?
Platelets
What part of the blood defends against invaders?
White blood cells.
How many red blood cells die every second?
2 million
You have type O blood. What kind of blood can you receive?
O.
What can your veins and arteries be compared to?
Roads/highways.
What are the messengers that travel in blood called?
Hormones
What part of the blood are little pieces of blood cells?
Platelets
Where do new blood cells get made?
In your bone marrow.
AB
What are like little side roads in your body for your blood?
Capillaries
What is the fourth job of your blood and what does that mean?
Thermostat. It controls the temperature of your body.
What part of the blood eats read blood cells when they become old and rough?
Phagocytes
What kind of cell can stem cells become?
Any kind of blood cell your body needs.
Which blood type is called a universal donor because it can be given to anyone?
O