CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
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TRUE or FALSE The heart is the hardest working muscle in your body.
TRUE
TRUE or FALSE Your heart pumps over 20,000 gallons of blood throughout your body each day.
FALSE Truth: Your heart pumps over 2,000 gallons of blood throughout your body each day.
TRUE or FALSE If you were to stretch out your blood vessel system, It would extend over 6,000 miles
FALSE TRUTH: If you were to stretch out your blood vessel system, It would extend over 60,000 miles
TRUE or FALSE A woman’s heart beats slightly faster than a man’s.
TRUE
TRUE or FALSE There is such a thing as a broken heart. Symptoms are similar to a heart attack, but the cause is usually stress and not heart disease.
TRUE
TRUE or FALSE Laughing is bad for your heart. It induces stress and destroys your immune system.
FALSE Truth: Laughing is good for your heart. It reduces stress and gives a boost to your immune system.
What does the Circulatory or Cardiovascular System do?
• Transports materials throughout the entire body • Transports nutrients, water, and oxygen to the billions of body cells • Heals and fights infections and removes wastes • Intricate highway that travels throughout the entire body
It keeps the body working by delivering oxygen to body cells and removing waste (Co2) from the cells
Circulatory System
It pumps the blood throughout the body
Heart
Blood Vessels
Carries the blood throughout the body
It carries the materials throughout the body.
Blood
What is divided into four chambers?
The Heart
What are the 2 types of Arteries?
Aorta and Pulmonary Artery
It is the largest blood vessel in the heart
Aorta
It carries blood containing Carbon Dioxide from your heart to your lungs
Pulmonary Artery
What are the 3 types of Veins?
Inferior Vena Cava Superior Vena Cava Pulmonary Vein
What is the Inferior Vena Cava?
Where the blood enters the heart from the body
It is where the blood enters the heart from the body
Superior Vena Cava
What is the Pulmonary Vein?
Carries blood-containing oxygen from your lungs to your heart
What are the four valves of the heart?
Tricuspid Valve Bicuspid Valve Right Semi Lunar Valve Left Semi Lunar Valve
Lets the blood fill in the right atrium before it enters the right ventricle.
Tricuspid Valve
What is the Bicuspid Valve?
Lets the blood fill in the left atrium before it enters the left ventricle
Lets the right ventricle fill before releasing the blood into the pulmonary artery
Right Semi Lunar Valve
What is the Left Semi Lunar Valve?
Lets the blood fill in the left ventricle before sending it to the aorta