Red Blood Cells

• help fight disease
• Carry oxygen throughout your body
• help clot wounds
• liquid part of the blood

White Blood Cells

• also known as Rh factors
• cell markers that determine blood type
• carry oxygen, carbon dioxide, nutrients
• help fight disease

Platelets

• respond to antigens and try to destroy them
• carries nutrients and blood cells throughout the body
• move blood carrying waste material back to the heart and lungs so the process can begin again.
• cell fragments that play an important part in forming blood clots

Plasma

• carries nutrients and blood cells throughout the body
• clumping of red blood cells
• organs that support and protect the body, stores minerals, allows movement, and make blood cells
• thick vessels that move blood carrying oxygen away from the heart and to the body

Arteries

• thick vessels that move blood carrying oxygen away from the heart and to the body
• clumping of red blood cells
• Connect blood vessels and have extremely thin walls that allow gases and nutrients to pass through.d
• a group of tissues that work together to do a certain job

Veins

• move blood carrying waste material back to the heart and lungs so the process can begin again.
• move blood carrying oxygen to the heart
• help to clump of red blood cells
• connect arteries and capillaries

Capillaries

• Oxygen carrying pigment in red blood cells
• Connect arteries and veins. Have thin walls that allow gases to pass through
• a group of organs that work together to do a certain job
• carry oxygen throughout your body

Organs

• are thick vessels that move blood carrying oxygen away from the heart
• stop bleeding by sticking together and forming clots
• are a group of tissues that work together to do a certain job
• are oxygen carrying pigments in red blood cells

Tissue

• Carry nutrients and oxygen throughout your body
• a group of organs that work together to do a certain job
• a group of cells that work together to do a certain job
• connect arteries and veins. ____________ have extremely thin walls that allow gases and nutrients to pass through

Organ system

• A group of cells that work together
• a group of organs that work together to do a certain job
• move blood carrying waste material back to the heart and lungs
• oxygen carrying pigment in red blood cells