Body Systems

What do arteries do?

• Transport blood to your brain

• Fight infection

• Carry oxygenated blood and nutrients to all parts of the body

• Carry waste products to the heart

What do white blood cells do?

• Fight infection

• Carry waste

• Help you breathe

• Transport nutrients to your heart

What 3 things are the circulatory system made of?

• Lungs, kidneys and capillaries

• Blood, heart, and blood vessels

• Blood, heart, lungs

• Kidneys, blood, capillaries

Veins carry oxygen poor blood back to the heart.

• False

• True

The job of the heart is to . . .

• pump blood around the body.

• send food to the small intestines.

• break down food.

• give energy to the body.

Tags

NGSS.4-LS1-1

The heart is about the size and shape of your . . .

• head

• fist

• hand

• foot

How does the heart work?

• It pumps blood first to the lungs, back to the heart and then around the rest of the body.

• It pumps blood first to the rest of the body, back to the lungs and then to the heart.

• It pumps blood around the rest of the body, back to the heart and then to the lungs,

______________ are the smallest blood vessels.

• Arteries
• Veins
• Capillaries

______________ are the second largest blood vessel. 

• Arteries
• Veins
• Capillaries

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

• respiratory
• digestive
• muscular
• skeletal

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-7