The Circulatory System

What is the job of the circulatory system?

• Transport gases, nutrients, and wastes to and from your cells

• Causes blood to circulate through the body by it's pumping action

• carry blood away from the heart

• carry blood back toward the heart

How many types of blood vessels are there?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

What is the function of the heart?

• Causes blood to circulate through the body by it's pumping action

• tubes that carry blood throughout the body

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What is the function of the blood vessels?

• Causes blood to circulate through the body by it's pumping action

• tubes that carry blood throughout the body

How many organs are there in the circulatory system?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

What does the arteries do?

• carries blood away from the cell

• carries blood back towards the cell

• nutrients, wastes, and gases are exchanged between blood and cells in this

What does the veins do?

• carries blood away from the cell

• carries blood back towards the cells

• nutrients, wastes, and gases are exchanged between blood and cells in this

What does the capillaries do?

• takes blood away from the cell

• takes blood back towards the cell

• nutrients, wastes, and gases are exchanged between blood and cells in this

Blood is composed of all of these except what?

• Red blood cells

• White blood cells

• Platelets

• Plasma

• Nerve Cells

How big is your heart?

• The size of your fist

• The size of your hand