Circulatory system
BY:ZAC
What does the circulatory system do?
The circulatory system pumps blood through your body, consisting of the heart, blood vessels, blood and lymph.
The circulatory system job is to be transporting materials throughout your whole body. It transports things like: water, nutrient and oxygen.
The circulatory system
The circulatory system has three main parts:
The heart
The blood
The blood vessels
Blood cells:
Red blood cells- carry’s oxygen and carbon dioxide.
White blood cells- Fights germs in your body.
Platelets- It helps you stop bleeding when you have a cut.
Plasma- Is the liquid part of blood.
Circulatory system
The blood vessels:
Arteries- Carry’s oxygen away from your heart.
Capillaries- Tiny blood vessels that takes Food substances, oxygen and wastes pass in and out of your blood through the capillary walls.
Veins- Carry’s blood towards your heart.
Circulatory system
The heart
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Disease of the circulatory system
Another disease is called hypertension- this causes this hard to work a lot harder and can cause the heart to led to a heart attack and stroke.