Choose from the following words to complete the sentences below.
Complete the sentences.
The function of the heart is to pump .......................................... around the body.
The right side of the heart pumps blood to the .........................................
The left side of the heart pumps blood to the rest of the ...................................... .
Blood in the arteries is under higher ...................................... than blood in veins.
Blood flows from areas of ................................... pressure to areas of ....................... pressure.
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I am a red blood cell. I carry ............................................ to all the cells in the body.
I like travelling in arteries – I get pushed around so fast. This is because the blood in arteries goes ...................................................... from the heart, so it is under high ......................................
I return to the heart in a .........................................
I have to get through ............................................, which are like a one-way door.
I return in a large ............................................................. called the ....................................... I enter the right ......................................................... of the heart.
Muscles contract and squeeze me into the right ......................................... .
This chamber then contracts, forcing me out of the heart through the ........................................... . This takes me to the ........................................, where I pick up oxygen. I go bright red!
I return to the heart in the ............................................ and go to the left ................................. This then forces me into the left .................................................. .
This chamber is the most powerful part of the heart.
I am then forced out in the main artery called the ...........................................