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Science Flash Cards
for bingo project #2
Question | Answer |
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What is the path the blood travels? (Starting at the vena cava) | 1: Vena Cava 2: right atrium 3: right ventricle 4: pulmonary artery 5: lungs 6: pulmonary veins 7: left atrium 8: left ventricle 9: body |
What are arteries, and what do they do ? | Arteries carry blood away from the heart, and they have thick walls because the blood is under the greatest pressure, |
What are veins , and what do they do? | Veins carry blood to the heart, they have thin walls, and they have valves to prevent the blood from backing up |
What are capillaries and what do they do? | Capillaries are tiny blood vessels, they are one cell thick, they provide cells with food, oxygen, and they take waste away from the cells. |
What are the two types of blood cells? | red blood cells (rbc), which carry oxygen, and white blood cells (wbc) that fight invaders. |
How many miles of blood vessels do kids have? Adults? | kids have 6,000 miles, adults have 100,000 miles |
What is the first job of the circulatory system? | take oxygen and food to the cells, and waste from the cells |
What is the second job of the circulatory system? | keep the temperature constant |
What is the third job of the circulatory system? | kill disease causing agents |
what is the fourth and final job of the circulatory system? | deliver chemicals where they are needed |