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I’m doing a report on on the heart for health class and one of the required pieces of information are: How does your organ work with other body systems to keep the body healthy?
I need to know what other body systems it works with and how?

all cells need oxygen to survive
the circulatory system supplies that oxygen and carries the waste products away

if you lined up all the arteries, veins, arterioles, venules, and capillaries of your body end to end they would wrap around the world two and a half times
capillaries is one of the places where gas exchange occurs (dropping off the oxygen and picking up the carbon dioxide) for cellular metabolism to continue
look up homeostasis in wikipedia and then go to utube and watch their videos on it

the circulatory system works with all other systems
lymphatic
integumentary
skeletal
muscular
endocrine
nervous
renal
digestive
reproductive
and the respiratory system is the other place where gas exchange occurs (in the lungs)
this is where we exhale the carbon dioxide from the deoxygenated blood and when we breath in the blood is being re-oxygenated so that it can carry the oxygen to all the cells and we can maintain homeostasis

it’s very complex and i’ll probably be studying it for the rest of my life
but knowledge is power and i love the challenge
best of luck to ya

2 Responses

1. Gaga L Says:
   February 16th, 2010 at 12:26 pm

   Parts of the nervous and circulatory systems also play major roles in the digestive system.
   References :

2. eli Says:
   February 16th, 2010 at 12:32 pm

   all cells need oxygen to survive
   the circulatory system supplies that oxygen and carries the waste products away

   if you lined up all the arteries, veins, arterioles, venules, and capillaries of your body end to end they would wrap around the world two and a half times
   capillaries is one of the places where gas exchange occurs (dropping off the oxygen and picking up the carbon dioxide) for cellular metabolism to continue
   look up homeostasis in wikipedia and then go to utube and watch their videos on it

   the circulatory system works with all other systems
   lymphatic
   integumentary
   skeletal
   muscular
   endocrine
   nervous
   renal
   digestive
   reproductive
   and the respiratory system is the other place where gas exchange occurs (in the lungs)
   this is where we exhale the carbon dioxide from the deoxygenated blood and when we breath in the blood is being re-oxygenated so that it can carry the oxygen to all the cells and we can maintain homeostasis

   it’s very complex and i’ll probably be studying it for the rest of my life
   but knowledge is power and i love the challenge
   best of luck to ya
   References :

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