The Blood System

What part of blood is responsible for carrying oxygen and carbon dioxide to body cells?

• Red Blood Cells
• White Blood Cells
• Platelets
• Plasma

What part of blood is responsible for carrying wastes, nutrients, and minerals?

• Red Blood Cells
• White Blood Cells
• Platelets
• Plasma

What do the arteries do?

• pumps blood to the heart
• pumps blood to and from the heart
• carry's blood away from the heart 
• a muscle 

What is the function of the heart?

• To pump blood around the body
• To remove oxygen from the blood
• To allow blood to flow through it 
• To breath

The main function of the circulatory system is 

• To give the body structure and support
• Excrete waste
• transport blood, nutrients, and gases throughout the body
• to transport messages from the body to the brain

Oxygen rich blood leaves the heart through the

• left ventricle

• left atrium

• right ventricle

• right atrium

Capillaries join together

• the heart and arteries

• veins and the heart

• arteries and veins

• heart and valves

Veins have special ________________ to stop blood from flowing backward.

• gravity

• valves

• arteries

• ventricles

Your blood is made up of which of the following...

• plasma, red blood cells, blue blood cells
• white and red blood cells
• plasma and platelets
• plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets

What would happen if your arteries cannot deliver blood?

• your tissues would not get the oxygen they need

• the skin would be extra hairy

• the heart would not work

• you would immediately fall asleep

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