Circulatory system
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What is the circulatory system?
The system that controls the steady movement of blood through the body
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What are the parts of the circulatory system?
heart, blood vessels, blood
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What does blood do?
Carries materials to cells and carries waste products away from cells.
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What are the parts of the heart?
left atrium, left ventricle, right atrium, right ventricle
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What are the three types of blood vessels?
arteries, veins, capillaries
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What are arteries?
Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart
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What are capillaries?
Microscopic, one cell-thick vessels that connect arterioles and venules
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What are veins?
Blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart
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Which blood vessel carries blood back to the heart?
veins
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Which blood vessels carry blood away from the heart?
arteries
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How do veins regulate blood pressure?
The compression of muscles around them
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How do arteries regulate blood pressure?
They are thicker and more elastic to manage the high pressures
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superior vena cava
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pulmonary artery
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pulmonary vein
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mitral valve
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aortic valve
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left ventricle
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right ventricle
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left atrium
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right atrium
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aorta
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Pulmonary valve
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Tricuspid valve
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Inferior vena cava
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