Cardiovascular System

Match the following

• mini blood vessels, where oxygen and carbondioxide are exchanged

• capillaries

• pumps blood

• arteries

• vessels going back to the heart and lungs - full of carbondioxide

• veins

• Vessels going away from the heart and lungs - full of oxygen

• heart

These are tiny blood vessels where the cells and the blood exchange nutrients, oxygen and waste.

• capillaries

• arteries

• veins

Match the following

• arteries

• 
• veins

• 
• capillaries

• 

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The heart is a large muscle that pumps the blood through the body. What type of muscle is it?

• skeletal muscle

• smooth muscle

• cardiac muscle

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When a heart part of the heart dies and quits functioning....

• heart attack

• heart failure

When the heart can no longer pump enough blood for the body's needs...

• heart attack

• heart failre

The blood has how many parts?

• 4

• 3

• 2

• 1

Match the 4 parts of the blood

• red blood cells

• 
• white blood cells

• 
• plasma

• 
• platelets

• 

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Match part of the blood with its job

• clot the blood so you stop bleeding

• red blood cells

• carry oxygen and nutrients to the body

• platelets

• water, nutrients, minerals

• white blood cells

• fight pathogens

• plasma

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Blood flowing between the heart and lungs is​ (a)   .

Blood flowing around the body is ​ (b)   .

• Pulmonary circulation
• Systemic Circulation