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Schaaf Circ. System
Schaaf Circulatory System
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The main organ of your circulatory system | heart |
| These blood cells fight off and destroy germs | White |
| Red blood cells get their red color from this. | Hemoglobin |
| Red blood cells bring this to your cells from your lungs. | Oxygen |
| This is the watery liquid that makes up more than half of your blood. | plasma |
| These proteins stop blood from flowing out a cut (scab) | Platelets |
| As the heart contracts and relaxes it pumps blood into your? (They travel AWAY from the heart) | arteries |
| These are the upper chambers of the heart | atrium |
| These are the lower chambers of the heart | ventricles |
| These are located in the heart and are "special one-way doors" that prevent the back-flow of blood | valves |
| This is digested food that is carried to every cell in your body. | Nutrients |
| The largest blood vessel in the body. | Aorta |
| Blood does this throughout the body, which is why the heart and blood vessels make up the Circulatory System. | Circulates |
| This is how hard your blood must push to move through your arteries, often a doctor will check this. | Blood pressure |
| This is part of the circulatory system and is in your chest | Heart |
| Your heart is the size of your fist and is the strongest what in the body? | muscle |
| Your heart carries blood to every part of your body through miles of little tubes called | blood vessels |
| The heart does this 80 times every minute | beats |
| Blood carries nutrients and? | oxygen |
| The blood picks up the oxygen from the? | lungs |
| Your blood carries a waste gas called | Carbon Dioxide |
| You get rid of the carbon dioxide by? | Breathing |
| The red blood cell carries? | oxygen/nutrients |
| If you do not have this kind of blood cells you will probably get sick | white blood cells |
| Transfere of blood from one person to another is called | transfusion |
| the lower chambers of the heart are called | ventricles |
| the muscle that separates the left and right side of the heart is called | septum |
| the smallest blood vessels | capillaries |
| These form blood clots that collect at the skin and form scabs | Platelets |
| The upper chambers of the heart are called the right and left | atriums |
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