Body systems WORKSHEET 2.

1. Match the answers to the questions.

a) A transport system that takes blood to all parts of the body.
b) Each time the heart pumps.
c) It usually beats 60 to 100 times a minute
d) Plasma, white and red cells and platelets.
e) In the capillaries.
f) They return the blood back to the heart.
g) Blood vessels.

1. What takes the blood around the body?

2. What do veins do?
3. What is the circulatory system?
4. Where does blood give nutrients and oxygen to the cells?
5. What is a heartbeat?
6. What is blood made up of?
7. How often does the heart beat?

2. Write ‘True’ or ‘false’. Correct the false ones.

a) Plasma carries nutrients and also red cells, white cells and capillaries.
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b) The red cells fight infection, the white cells carry oxygen.
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c) Platelets help the blood to clot and form scabs.
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d) The circulatory system works continuously, never stopping.
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3. Circle the odd one out and explain why.

a) red cells, white cells, clots, platelets

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b) veins, nutrients, arteries, capillaries
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c) has plasma, pumps blood, beats, hollow muscle
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Body system WORKSHEET 2.3

1. Match the answers to the questions.

a) A transport system that takes blood to all parts of the body. 3
b) Each time the heart pumps. 5
c) It usually beats 60 to 100 times a minute. 7
d) Plasma, white and red cells and platelets. 6
e) In the capillaries. 4
f) They return the blood back to the heart. 2
g) Blood vessels. 1

1. What takes the blood around the body?

2. What do veins do?
3. What is the circulatory system?
4. Where does blood give nutrients and oxygen to the cells?
5. What is a heartbeat?
6. What is blood made up of?
7. How often does the heart beat?

2. Write ‘True’ or ‘false’. Correct the false ones.

a) Plasma carries nutrients and also red cells, white cells and capillaries.
False. Plasma carries nutrients and also red cells, white cells and platelets.
b) The red cells fight infection, the white cells carry oxygen.
False. The red cells carry oxygen, the white cells fight infection.
c) Platelets help the blood to clot and form scabs.
True
d) The circulatory system works continuously, never stopping.
True

3. Circle the odd one out and explain why.

a) red cells, white cells, clots, platelets

not carried in the blood
b) veins, nutrients, arteries, capillaries
not part of the circulatory system
c) has plasma, pumps blood, beats, hollow muscle
refers to blood not the heart