Section 3.4

Question 1

What are the three main parts of the circulatory system?

Answer 1

The heart, blood, and blood vessels

Question 2

What tissues make up the heart?

Answer 2

The cardiac muscle tissue, nerve tissue, and connective tissue

Question 3

What are the four components of blood?

Answer 3

Red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and plasma

Question 4

What is the function of red blood cells?

Answer 4

Transports oxygen throughout the body and are the most abundant cell in the body

Question 5

What is the function of white blood cells?

Answer 5

To fight infections and illnesses in the body.

Question 6

What are platelets?

Answer 6

Small cells that aid in clotting blood

Question 7

What is Plasma?

Answer 7

The liquid component of blood which is made up of protein and carries the blood cells and platelets

Question 8

What is blood?

Answer 8

A type of connective tissue found throughout the whole body

Question 9

What are the three main types of blood vessels

Answer 9

Arteries, veins, and capillaries

Question 10

Arteries…

Answer 10

carry blood away from the heart

Question 11

Veins…

Answer 11

carry blood to the heart

Question 12

Capillaries are…

Answer 12

tiny blood vessels responsible for gas exchange

Question 13

What are the main 4 functions of the circulatory system?

Answer 13

Transports substances like nutrients/oxygen around the body, carries waste from the body, regulates body temperature by sweating/shivering, transports white blood cells to areas in the body fighting viral/bacterial illnesses