Cardiovascular System

Blood vessels carry red blood cells to the lungs, to get rid of carbon dioxide and pick up oxygen that has been breathed in. The heart pumps red blood cells carrying oxygen from lungs to all cells in the body and back to the lungs once the oxygen has been used up. 

• Respiratory

• Cardiovascular

• Nervous

• Digestive

• Skeletal

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Blood vessels deliver nutrients and oxygen for all the intestinal cells to function. Blood in blood vessels picks up nutrients absorbed by the intestines and carries them away to other parts of the body that need them.

• Respiratory

• Cardiovascular

• Nervous

• Digestive

• Skeletal

The heart and the blood vessels are the major parts of the circulatory system.

• True

• False

The heart is a ______ which contracts and expands like a pump to circulate blood throughout the body.

• bone

• spongy tissue

• muscle

• blood vessel

Arteries carry blood away from the heart to the rest of the body.

• True

• False

What is the main function of the heart?

• exchange gases

• circulate blood throughout the body

• produce red blood cells

• remove waste materials from the body

How does the heart work?

• It pumps blood around the rest of the body, back to the heart and then to the lungs.

• It pumps blood first to the rest of the body, back to the lungs and then to the heart.

• It pumps blood first to the lungs, back to the heart and then around the rest of the body.

What the the functions of the Circulatory System? (Multiple answers)

• Transports materials (gases, nutrients, waste products, molecules, hormones) to different

  parts of the body

• Removes waste products (cell waste and carbon dioxide)

• helps your body move

• Fights diseases

Veins carry blood back to the heart

• true

• false

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

• muscular

• digestive

• respiratory

• skeletal