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The heart is a large muscle which acts like a pump and pushes the blood around the body

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Why does your heart squeeze?

it help to move the blood around your body


What is the first use of circulatory system?

To move blood around the body, to and from the heart.


How does the blood move inside the body?

your blood circulates around your body because your heart pumps when you walk or run, or do anything physical


What happens in order for the blood to move faster around the body?

The faster your heart beats the faster blood flows.


What would happen to your circulation during exercise?

More blood is pumped around the body because the heart beats more. When the heart beats more the that makes the blood move around the body faster :)


What tube in your body moves blood from your heart through your body?

I think the answer is blood vessels. I hope I was right. :)


Why do blood has to move around the body continously?

If you don't have blood pumping around the body, the heart wouldn't be able to get everything it need in the blood stream to work and if the heart doesn't work most of your muscles won't work either causing you to die. :(


How can an artery carry deoxygenataed blood?

An artery will always move blood from the heart to the rest of the body as a vein will always move blood from the body back into the heart, whether or not it is oxygenated or not.


What makes it easy for blood to move through the arteries?

The contractions and relaxation of the muscles in the heart cause the blood to be pumped around the body. The contractions push the blood out of the heart and cause it took be pushed around the body in 0.8 seconds. Other muscles in the heart relax so blood may flow into another chamber of the heart.


What move blood to the heart?

Veins and Arteries move the blood throughout your body which are part of the Respiratory System with the help of the heart pumping the blood.


Which organ system transports oxygen and nutrients around the body?

The circulatory system (blood and vessels) transports oxygen and nutrients around the body. The heart furnishes the power to move the blood.


What move blood around your body?

The heart is responsible for pumping blood around the body through a network of blood vessels, including arteries, veins, and capillaries. This allows oxygen and nutrients to be delivered to tissues and organs and waste products to be removed.