Create and label your own diagram of the circulatory system.
Here are a few examples that you can use to create your own.
For your own information,
* Ventricles and atriums are chambers in the heart that help it pump blood.
* The pulmonary circuit is the blood vessels in the lungs.
* The aorta and vena cava's are the main blood vessels that enter and leave the heart.
* Arteries carry blood away from the heart.
* Veins carry blood to the heart.
* Capillaries are where oxygen is dropped off to neighboring tissue.
Example 1:
Example 2:
Question 1
1.
Oxygen gas enters cells by...
Question 10
10.
For oxygen to reach the cells in our body what does it need?
Question 9
9.
To make red blood cells, the body uses raw _______ from the food we _______ and digest.
Word Bank:
clear
food
materials
eat
transit
Question 8
8.
Red Blood cells are made in the cavities of our...
Question 7
7.
The brain initiates breathing by sending a message through the
Question 6
6.
Word Bank:
loved
lungs
close
far
upside
kidney
Red Blood Cells (RBC's) traveling in vessels in the _______ can only pick up oxygen molecules that are very _______ to them.
Question 5
5.
Our lungs architecture ensure that very little oxygen is
Question 4
4.
Word Bank:
thick
thin
diffusion
oxygen
capillaries
carbon dioxide
The alveoli walls are made of _______ flat cells. The cells are surrounded by _______. Together, the capillaries and thin alveoli cells make a two-cell thick membrane that brings blood and _______ close enough for _______.
Question 3
3.
The powerhouse that pumps oxygen where it needs to go is called the "__________"
Question 11
11.
Arteries are _______ blood vessels that carry blood from the _______ to the rest of the body. This blood is rich in oxygen and _______.
Question 16
16.
Word bank:
capillary
tissues
The smallest branches of blood vessels is called the _______. At capillaries, oxygen is transferred from the blood to the _______.
Question 14
14.
Capillaries merge into larger vessels called...
Question 13
13.
Word Bank:
deoxygenated blood
organs
removed
veins
Blood is circulated back to the heart through blood vessels called _______. Veins deliver _______ back to the heart. On the way back to the heart, waste products in the blood are routed to other _______ where they are _______ for disposal.
Question 12
12.
As blood makes it's way back the heart it picks up