The+Circulatory+System

The Circulatory System transports gases and oxygen from the lungs and to the cells all throughout all the organs of the body. The major organs in the Circulatory system are the heart, blood, and blood vessels. The heart is located in the middle of your chest and is the muscular pump that pumps blood through blood vessels.It keeps the blood moving in your body. Blood vessels are the tubes that carry blood to and from the heart. The blood in your body travels through thousands of miles of blood vessels. Blood carries nutrients, water, oxygen, and waste products.



Types of blood vessels are:
 * red blood cells
 * white blood cells
 * cell platelets

Red blood cells have the most important duty. Just a single drop of your blood contains millions of red blood cells. Red blood cells travel through your body delivering oxygen and removing waste. Platelets are the blood cells that help stop bleeding.When we get a cut the platelets start to stick together on the opening where the damaged blood vessels are. White blood cells fight off and attack the germs in your body.

Types of blood vessels are:
 * arteries
 * capillaries
 * veins

Arteries are blood vessels that carry oxygen from the heart. Capillaries connect arteries to veins and oxygen go and in and out of your blood. Veins take blood back to your heart.

There are two important systems that are related to the Circulatory system.
 * The Respiratory system helps oxygen get into the blood, so the blood can deliver oxygen to the different organs in your body. It is related to the Circulatory system because the Respitory system delivers oxygen into the Circulatory system. The oxygen that the Respiratory system puts in the blood is pumped from the heart and carried to the brain and other organs.
 * The Muscular system plays a huge part in the Circulatory system. It is related to the Circulatory system because the main organ, the heart, is actually a muscle. Without any muscle, the heart would not have the strength to pump all the blood.

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By Ashley Lampe and Amy Hope