cardio system

Select the 3 components that make up the cardiovascular system

• Heart

• Lungs

• Blood Vessels

• Blood

What is the difference between arteries and veins?

• Arteries contain valves

• Vein contain valves

• The tunica media is thicker in the artery

• The tunica media is thicker in the vein

How are arteries and veins similar?

• They are 1 cell thick

• They both transport blood

• They have 3 layers of tissue

• They both contain valves

How does thermoregulation occur?

• Dilation of the heart and blood vessels

• Wearing a coat when its cold.

• Dilation of Peripheral blood vessels

• Constriction of blood vessels when cold

carry oxygen from the lungs to the cells of the body and carbon dioxide from the body cells back to the lungs

• Red blood cells

• Platelets

• White blood cells

• Plasma

what collect the blood from the capillaries and RETURN it to the heart

• veins

• arteries

• antibodies

• plasma

What is the role of the heart in the circulatory system?

• It forms a network of blood vessels.

• It pumps blood throughout the body.

• It transports oxygen to all body cells.

• It helps the body to make blood cells.

Heart is a --------- muscular organ.

• thick

• thin

• hollow

• transparent

Helps fight infection

• Red blood cells

• White blood cells

• Plasma

• Platelets

The cardiovascular system consists of ------------.

• heart

• blood vessels

• blood

• all of them