1. Anatomy-Cardiovascular System
Characteristics & Functions of the Cardiovascular System

2. Anatomy-Cardiovascular System Introduction
Write what you know about the cardiovascular system.
Try to guess the path the blood takes as it travels through the body.

3. Anatomy-Cardiovascular System Objectives
Students will be able to:
Define terms relative to the cardiovascular system.
Describe the basic characteristics & functions of the cardiovascular system.

4. Anatomy-Cardiovascular System Terminology
Heart
Vascular
Vessels that circulate blood
Oxygenated
High oxygen level
Deoxygenated
Low oxygen level

5. Anatomy-Cardiovascular System Circulatory System
Circulates blood through the body
Closed system
Heart & blood vessels

6. Anatomy-Cardiovascular System Heart
Chambered muscular organ
Pumps blood throughout the body
Receives deoxygenated blood through veins
Pumps oxygenated blood through arteries

7. Anatomy-Cardiovascular System Heart

8. Anatomy-Cardiovascular System Blood Flow

9. Anatomy-Cardiovascular System Blood Vessels
Elastic tubes
Carry blood
Arteries
Arterioles
Capillaries
Venules
Veins
Arteries
Veins

10. Anatomy-Cardiovascular System Arteries
Muscular, thick, elastic blood vessels
Carry oxygenated blood away from the heart to body cells, tissue & organs
Except for pulmonary artery
artery

11. Anatomy-Cardiovascular System Arterioles
Small terminal branches of arteries
Connect arteries to capillaries
arteriole
artery

12. Anatomy-Cardiovascular System Capillaries
Very small blood vessels
Connect arterioles to venules
arteriole
artery
capillary

13. Anatomy-Cardiovascular System Venules
Small veins
Connect capillaries to larger veins
venule
arteriole
artery
capillary

14. Anatomy-Cardiovascular System Veins
Thin walled blood vessels
Carry deoxygenated blood to the heart from body cells, tissue & organs
Except for pulmonary vein
venule
arteriole
artery
vein
capillary

15. Anatomy-Cardiovascular System Write 3 Things You Learned