Circulatory and Respiratory Systems

What is the main function of the respiratory system?

• to provide oxygen and remove carbon dioxide from the body
• to bring oxygen to the body
• to break down food and absorb nutrients
• to remove oxygen from the body and deliver carbon dioxide

When you breathe, your lungs take in ___ and remove ___. 

• air/oxygen
• oxygen/carbon dioxide 
• carbon dioxide/waste 
• waste/air 

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_________ Carry blood away from the heart to various organs

• Arteries
• Capillaries
• Veins

__________ Very small tubes that connect arteries to veins; the smallest blood vessels.

• Veins
• Capillaries 
• Arteries

What is the function of the heart?

• To pump blood around the body
• To remove oxygen from the blood
• To allow blood to flow through it 
• To breath

Carbon dioxide is considered a _________________

• food
• waste
• energy
• fun party favor

The circulatory system works with the ___________ system to provide our body with oxygen.

• respiratory
• digestive
• muscular
• skeletal

What is tube that is also known as your wind pipe?

• esophogus
• bronchi
• trachea
• alveoli

Flap of skin that covers the opening to the windpipe during swallowing

• Stomach
• Trachea
• Pancreas
• Epiglottis

Red blood cells are produced in the...

• pancreas
• Heart
• Muscles
• Bone marrow