Circulatory System

What is the size of the heart?

• The size of an adult fist

• Pump the blood

• Carries blood away from the heart

• They help the body fight infection

What do platelets do?

• blood clotting

• help blood clot

• maintain blood volume

• damaged blood vessels

What does blood also contain?

• white blood cells

• erythrocytes

• platelets

• carbon dioxide

What are the solid parts found in blood?

• red & white blood cells

• platelets

• moves blood & regulates temperature

• pump the blood

What happens to the blood every time the heart beats?

• It helps the body fight infection

• It goes in two different directions

• Pumps the blood

• Creates tiny pieces of blood cells inside the membranes

What does the artery do?

• carries the blood to and from the body's cells

• carries the blood back into the heart

• carries blood away from the heart

• damaged blood vessels

What are the two important functions of the circulatory system?

• moves blood & regulates temperature

• arteries & capillaries

• blood vessels & blood

• red and white blood cells

The circulatory system is made up of ?

• blood, veins, and temperature

• pumps, separates and moves the blood

• heart, blood vessel and blood

• muscle tissue, joints, tendons

What would an example of something found in plasma?

• carbon dioxide

• photosynthesis

• glucose

• oxygen

What does this system carry?

• rich oxygen blood and poor oxygen blood

• carries blood away from the heart

• nutrients, oxygen, antibodies and hormones

• oxygen, nutrients & wastes