Circulatory system

What is the Circulatory System also known as?

• The heart
• Cardiovascular System
• Nervous System
• Aorta

Arteries carry

• oxygen rich blood away from the heart.

• oxygen rich blood toward the heart.

• deoxygenated blood away from the heart

• deoxygenated blood away from the heart

Veins carry

• oxygen poor blood away from the heart.

• oxygen poor blood back to the heart.

• oxygen rich blood back to the heart.

• oxygen rich blood away from the heart.

______________ are the smallest blood vessels and where all exchanges between blood and cells occurs.

• Arteries
• Veins
• Capillaries

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

• respiratory
• digestive
• muscular
• skeletal

The main function of the circulatory system is 

• To give the body structure and support
• Excrete waste
• transport blood, nutrients, and gases throughout the body
• to transport messages from the body to the brain

Identify

• Pulmonary veins
• Pulmonary artery
• Aorta
• Vena cava

Identify

• Left atrium
• Right atrium
• Left ventricle
• Right ventricle

This chamber of the heart RECEIVES blood returning from the body

• Right Atrium
• Right Ventricle
• Left Atrium
• Left Ventricle

The frequency of heart contractions is controlled by the "pacemaker" of the heart called:

• AV node

• blood pressure

• Cardiac cycle

• SA node

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3