The Cardiovascular System

What is the cardiovascular system?

Cardiovascular
Cardio = heart (from the Greek
word ‘kardia’)

Vascular = vessels (from the Latin

word ‘vasculum’) ie. blood vessels
Blood vessels: veins vs arteries
Difference between the two?

● Most arteries carry blood that is oxygenated

(contains oxygen)
- shown in red

● Most veins carry blood that is deoxygenated

- shown in blue

● AAA - Arteries Always carry blood Away from the heart

● Veins carry blood to the heart
The Heart
The Heart: how does it work?
The Heart is actually TWO pumps.
A More Detailed look.
A More Detailed look.
how does the blood flow through the heart?
http://www.explania.com/en/channels/health/detail/the-human-heart
The Effects of Exercise on the
Cardiovascular System
• The Heart is a Cardiac Muscle:
1. Stroke volume increases - amount of blood pumped from the heart in
one beat
2. Cardiac output increases - total amount of blood pumped per minute
3. Resting heart rate decreases - as the heart will pump the blood required
in fewer beats.

• The more blood that can be pumped, the more

oxygen it can carry to the muscles that require
it.

Regular
Exercise =

Larger Stronger Heart

Resting Heart Rate
• avg. resting heart rate between 60 and 100 bpm

• People who exercise regularly might have a resting heart of

between
50-60 bpm.

Recently retired endurance cyclist Miguel Indurain

has a resting heart rate of 28 bpm.

Measure your heart rate over 15 seconds and

multiply it by 4 to find out your resting heart
rate.
House-league Point Challenge!
● Get in your house-league teams.
● First team to correctly identify the number of
the 4 heart chambers will earn 5 points.
(question A)
● First team to answer all the questions correctly
will earn 10 points. (question B)
Answers must be on paper… so go
get some..
Question A.
Correctly identify the 4 heart
chambers:
Right ventricle: ________
Right atrium:__________
Left ventricle:__________
Left atrium:___________

Question B.
Where does # 8 go to?
Where does # 14 go to?
What is #14 called?
#1 is the inferior vena
________
#2 is the _______vena
_______
What is #4 called?
Where does #9 come from?
worksheet 2
● Go to anatomyarcade.com
● Click on circulatory
● Click on The Heart Jigsaw (turn off sound
on your laptop)