Circulatory+System+6a

=** __Circulatory__ __ System __**= = **Hello my name is candy-Lou. My class is studying different systems in the human body and I am studying the circulatory system. It is an interesting system. I learned a lot about this particular system and I hope you do to! ** = = = = **To keep the circulatory system healthy you should exercise often and eat the right foods. We have to exercise to keep our heart healthy cause if we don’t you can get theses diseases. The heart attack, stroke and atherosclerosis.** = = **A stroke is when part of the brain does not get enough blood due to a clot or burst blood vessels. Atherosclerosis is when it can develop in coronary arteries, which supply that, the heart muscle when that happens the heart muscle receives less blood and there for less oxygen the condition may lead to a heart attack. A heart attack happens when blood flows to a part of the heart that does not receive blood or oxygen this permanently.** = = **There are three main organs. The Arteries, the capillaries and the veins and the heart these organs are so important in the circulatory system because they deliver blood to the whole body.** = = **The arteries are blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart arteries take oxygen rich blood to all part of the body from the head to the toes. The capillaries are tiny blood vessels carry carbon-dioxide rich blood to small veins. The veins carry blood back to the heart.** The heart sends blood around your body. The blood provides your body with the oxygen and nutrients it needs **. Those are all the main organs.** = = **This system interacts with other systems like the lung. Those are all the other system that interact with circulatory system ** = = **When we breathe in our lungs take oxygen passes into our blood though blood vessels in the lungs. Blood with fresh oxygen travels from the lungs to the heart.** = = **The circulatory system is related to the human body because where you have cell there is blood your whole body is filled with blood.** = = **The primary function of the circulatory system is that your heart keeps you alive because blood travels to the top of your heart and the tips of your toes though the circulatory system.** = = **All in all, the circulatory system helps the human body in many different ways. It helps us stay alive by bringing blood to the whole body. It also gives you diseases if you don’t keep it healthy. To keep the circulatory system healthy you have to exercise.** = = = = = = **look at my wonderful diagram of the circulatory system** = = = = = = **look at my web of the circulatory** =

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