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    Overview When you exercise, it stimulates the autonomic sympathetic nervous system. One of the most effected bodily systems is the cardio-respiratory system. Any change in the intensity of an activity changes the needs of you body. During exercise your heart and breathing rates increase noticeably. The change is due to the increased needs of oxygen and other nutrients to the muscles in the body. Circulatory System Exercise uses up a lot of energy, which the cells derive from oxidizing glucose

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    Tim Taylor, 2012) has argued that cardiovascular system referred to as the circulatory system, is composed of blood within the blood vessels and heart. The function of the heart is pumping the blood through the blood vessels of the body. There are three main functions of the cardiovascular system are: transportation where the heart pumps the blood vessels through the delivery way. It has been argued by (Medical terminology for cancer, 2014) that heart transports the respiratory gases, nutrients

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    Glamingo Circulatory System The Glamingo has a very unusual circulatory system. They have one of the most powerful hearts of all mammals and there blood pressure is double the amount of most mammals! Since the Glamingos neck is so long the heart must work very hard to pump blood from the neck to the brain. In the upper part of the neck there is a complex pressure regulating system that maintains blood flow when they bend down to drink water. In their brain there is an elastic blood vessel

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    The circulatory system is a vast network of organs and vessels that are responsible for the flow of blood, nutrients, oxygen and other gasses, and hormones to and from cells. Without the circulatory system the body would be unable to fight off infections. It is made up of different systems that work together including the cardiovascular, pulmonary and systemic. In addition to blood, the circulatory system also moves lymph which is a clear fluid that helps to get rid of unwanted material in the body

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    The circulatory and respiratory systems work together in the body. Together, their function is to bring oxygen to all places in the body. Both systems are composed of complex, functional organs that accomplish their task as efficiently as possible. Each system is dependent on the other and one is useless without the other. The circulatory and respiratory systems work together in the human body to bring oxygen and other materials to all body parts. The circulatory system, also called the cardiovascular

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    The cardiovascular system and the circulatory systems work hand in hand. The main functions of the cardiovascular system are to transport nutrients, oxygen, and hormones to cells throughout the body, protect the body by white blood cells against foreign microbes and toxins, and platelets for blood clotting and regulate body temperature, pH fluid, and water content of cells. It’s a closed system, and the main organs associated with the cardiovascular system is the heart and the blood vessels. The

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    Every system is connected to each other, in different many ways. In our project microbe an us blood is the number one survival in the circulatory system,. The circulatory system is composed of the heart and blood vessels, including arteries, veins, and capillaries. Our bodies actually have two circulatory systems.In our heart we have a pulmonary circulation is a short loop that goes from the heart to the loops and goes back again. The muscular system connects to the circulatory system. The muscular

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    The main system that was studied in the past labs was the circulatory system. The circulatory system consists of the heart, the blood and all its components, arteries, and veins. The blood is composed of red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets which are all important. Red blood cells are used to transport respiratory gases to the body, white blood cells are the body’s defense mechanism, and platelets are what helps blood clot when there is an opening in the surface of the skin or in the

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    and 2 and research, to explain how the circulatory and respiratory systems work together to maintain the function of the cells and the body as a whole. In the human body, the circulatory system consists of the heart, blood vessels, arteries, veins and capillaries. The heart pumps blood around the body via the veins. The circulatory system works when nutrients and oxygen are distributed to every cell in the human body by the blood. The Circulatory system also gets rid of waste products such as

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    Chapter twenty is the last one of the circulatory system and it discussed about the blood vessels and circulation. Blood vessels is the distribution network or the network of tubes. There are three main blood vessels in the heart there are artery, veins and lymphatic. The arteries are all the blood vessels that take blood out from the heart. It tends to be thick, strong and tough because all the blood is rushing through the arteries. The arterioles are like the mini arteries that branch off of the

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