1. How your blood gets around your body?
Circulatory System
How your blood gets around
your body?

2. Circulatory System Function -- Job/Purpose
To get blood, nutrients, and waste to different parts of the body.
Transportation System inside the body
Doctor: Cardiologist

3. Circulatory System Types of Circulation
Systematic Circulation – blood going from the heart to all parts of the body
Pulmonary Circulation – blood going between the heart and lungs
Cardiac Circulation – blood moving through the heart only

4. Circulatory System
Structure is the look and size of a part

5. Parts of the Circulatory System
Heart
A muscle made of cardiac muscle.
4 chambers
Pumps blood to all parts of the body

6. Left
Ventricle
Right
Atrium
Inferior
Vena Cava
Aorta
Pulmonary Artery
Pulmonary Valve
Pulmonary Vein
Left Atrium
Mitral Valve
Right Ventricle
Septum
Superior Vena Cava
Tricuspid
Valve

7. Parts of the Circulatory System
Blood Vessels
Arteries
Takes blood AWAY from the heart
Full of oxygen
Veins
Takes blood TOWARDS the heart
Little to no oxygen
Capillary
Connects the Arteries and Veins
Nutrients, Oxygen, and Waste exchange takes place here

8. Parts of the Circulatory System
Blood
Red Blood Cells
Made in bone marrow
Carries Oxygen to the body
White Blood Cells
The defense system in the body
Fight off viruses and bacteria that make you sick
Platelets
Help blood clot when you cut yourself
Plasma
The liquid water all other parts of blood float in

9. Homeostasis
All parts of your body working together to be healthy and balanced?
How does your circulatory system help keep your body in homeostasis?
Blood pressure
Transportation system
The doctor that specializes in this body system is called a cardiologist.