This is how the body keeps blood moving through the body

Red and white blood cells, plasma and platelets.

Blood carries nutrients and oxygen from our lungs to cells in our body and collects waste products and carbon dioxide back to the lungs.

The heart, lungs, arteries, veins and capillaries.

They carry the oxygen around the body and return carbon dioxide to the lungs.

They protect the body from germs, fight infection and clean the blood.

Plasma alone is yellow in colour and carries the blood cells, water, salts and enzymes.

They are tiny cells or bits of cells that form clots where you are cut to stop bleeding.

It is the pump to push the blood around the body.

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right

artery, veins and capillaries

artery

capillary

at the cell front

yellow

pulse

the valves opening and closing

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return the blood to the heart and lungs

take the oxygenated blood to the body

carbon dioxide