The Circulatory Story Vocabulary

Related to the circulation of blood

• Component

• Circulatory

• Hemoglobin

• Transport

A part of a larger object or system

• Hemoglobin

• Cell

• Component

• Chamber

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-3

A protein found in red blood cells that transports, or carries, oxygen

• Ventricle

• Circulatory

• Mitral Valve

• Hemoglobin

To carry something from one place to another

• Plasma

• Component

• Transport

• Pericardium

The smallest, functioning unit of a living organism

• Plasma

• Septum

• Cell

• Circulatory

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

The liquid part of the blood; this is 90 percent water

• Plasma

• Atrium

• Cell

• Aortic Valve

A protective sac that encloses the heart

• Chamber

• Pericardium

• Plasma

• Cell

The membrane that separates the left and right sides of the heart

• Component

• Septum

• Ventricle

• Transport

One of the top two chambers, or rooms, of the heart that receives blood from veins

• Atrium

• Circulatory

• Plasma

• Transport

One of the two bottom chambers of the heart, receives blood from the atrium, sends it out of the heart through an artery

• Atrium

• Ventricle

• Pericardium

• Aortic Valve