The circulatory system

Your blood is made up of which of the following...

• plasma, red blood cells, blue blood cells
• white and red blood cells
• plasma and platelets
• plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets

What part of blood is responsible for fighting infections?

• Red Blood Cells
• White Blood Cells
• Platelets
• Plasma

What part of blood is responsible for carrying wastes, nutrients, and minerals?

• Red Blood Cells
• White Blood Cells
• Platelets
• Plasma

What are platelets?

• Very small plates used by woodland creatures and fairies

• The blood cells that form clots when you are cut to stop bleeding.

• They make your blood thinner when you are out of breath

• the take oxygen back to the heart

Which describes all the parts of the circulatory system?

• heart, lungs, stomach, muscles

• heart, blood, arteries, and veins

• bones, skin, hair

What does Deoxygenated mean?

• Oxygen-rich

• Blood flow

• Oxygen-poor

• Water Flow

As the blood reaches the lungs, what is removed from the blood?

• Oxygen

• Carbon dioxide

• Red blood cells

• White blood cells

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,

What is the function of the circulatory system?

• To provide nutrients to the whole body

• To maintain homeostasis for the body

• To fight off infection or disease

• To transport nutrients, oxygen, and blood throughout the body

What do we call the vessels that return blood back to the heart?

• arteries

• chambers

• veins

• ventricles