Kids Health How Your Heart Works

What is the main organ of the circulatory system?

• small intestine

• bone

• lungs

• heart

Arteries carry oxygen rich blood away from the heart.

• True

• False

Veins carry oxygen poor blood back to the heart.

• False

• True

The job of the heart is to . . .

• pump blood around the body.

• send food to the small intestines.

• break down food.

• give energy to the body.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

How does the heart work?

• It pumps blood first to the lungs, back to the heart and then around the rest of the body.

• It pumps blood first to the rest of the body, back to the lungs and then to the heart.

• It pumps blood around the rest of the body, back to the heart and then to the lungs,

______________ are the smallest blood vessels.

• Arteries
• Veins
• Capillaries

______________ are the second largest blood vessel. 

• Arteries
• Veins
• Capillaries

The circulatory system works with the ___________ system to provide our body with oxygen.

• respiratory
• digestive
• muscular
• skeletal

The circulatory system works with the __________ system to obtain energy from nutrients that we eat. 

• respiratory 
• digestive
• skeletal
• nervous

What does Deoxygenated mean?

• Oxygen-rich
• Blood flow
• Oxygen-poor
• Water Flow