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Fact Sheet – B3.2 Transport Systems
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 The heart
1. What makes up the circulatory system? (3)  The blood vessels
 The blood
Transports substances around the
2. What does the circulatory system do? (1)
body
3. What does the heart do? (1)
Pumps blood around the body
4. What is the heart wall mostly made of up?
Muscle tissue
(1)
 The left atrium
5. What are the four chambers of the heart?  The left ventricle
(4)
 The right atrium
 The right ventricle
6. Blood enters the ___1___ of the heart.
1. atria
The ___2___ contract and force blood into
2. atria
the ___3___. The ___4___ contract and
3. ventricles
force blood out of the heart. ___5___ in the 4. ventricles
heart ensure that blood flows in the correct 5. Valves
___6___. Blood flows from the heart to the 6. direction
organs through ___7___ and returns
7. arteries
through ___8___. There are two separate
8. veins
___9___ systems, one for the ___10___ and 9. circulation
one for ___11___.
10. lungs
11. all other organs of the body
7. What do arteries do? (1)
Carry blood away from the heart
 Thick walls
8. What properties do arteries have? (3)
 containing muscle
 and elastic fibres
9. What do veins do? (1)
Carry blood back to the heart
 Thin walls
10. What properties do veins have? (2)
 valves
Allow exchange of substances
11. What do capillaries do? (1)
between the blood and cells.
 Narrow
12. What properties do capillaries have? (2)
 Very thin walls
9. What do stents do? (1)
10. In what event would stents be needed?
(2)
11. What is blood? (1)
12. What does blood plasma do? (3)
13. What do red blood cells do? (1)
14. How are red blood cells adapted to their
function? (2)
15. Haemoglobin is a red ___1___ which
combines with ___2___ in the lungs to form
___3___, and splits up again into __4__ and
__5__ in other organs.
16. What do white blood cells do? (1)
17. What do platelets do? (1)
18. What do platelets consist of? (2)
19. What is the xylem? (2)
20. What is the transpiration stream? (1)
21. What is the phloem? (2)
Keep arteries open
If arteries begin to narrow (1) and
restrict blood flow (2)
A tissue which consists of plasma,
red blood cells, white blood cells,
and platelets.
Transports:
-carbon dioxide (⅟2) from organs
to lungs (⅟2)
-soluble products of digestion (⅟2)
from small intestine to other
organs (⅟2)
-urea (⅟2) from liver to kidneys (⅟2)
Transport oxygen from the lungs
to other organs.
 No nucleus
 Packed with haemoglobin
1. pigment
2. oxygen
3. oxyhaemoglobin
4. oxygen
5. haemoglobin
Help to defend the body against
pathogens
Help to clot at the site of a wound
 Small fragments of cells
 No nucleus
Tissue in plants (⅟2) that
transports water and mineral ions
(⅟2)
from the roots (⅟2) to the stem
and leaves (⅟2)
The movement of water from the
roots  xylem  out through the
leaves
Tissue in plants (⅟2) that
transports sugars (⅟2) from the
roots (⅟2) to the rest of the plant
(⅟2)