Muscles and Circulation: Write The Date and Title Read The 3 Los and Write The Green Lo

Describe the role of muscles in Describe the structure and
Explain the differences between

function of the different blood
the heart the three blood vessels
vessels
Muscles and circulation

Starter
Write the date and title
Read the 3 LOs and write the green LO
Starter:
Name the organs in the circulatory system
What does each organ do?
Keywords: circulation, heart, blood vessels, arteries, veins, capillaries, pressure, oxygenated, deoxygenated
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Write your question in your exercise book and answer it

1. Which side of the heart has bigger muscles? Why?
2. How many chambers does the heart have?
3. When the chambers are full of blood what does the muscle
tissue in the wall of the heart do?
4. What are the blood vessels going into the heart called? What
about those coming out of the heart?
vessels
The Circulatory System

• The heart is an organ of the
circulatory system.
• The heart’s function is to pump

blood through the blood vessels.
• First, blood is pumped to the

lungs, then it’s pumped around
the body.
vessels
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Blood vessels
Arteries (away from heart)
Veins (way-in to heart)
Capillaries (location of gas exchange)
vessels

• Arteries are large blood
vessels.
• They are shown in red in
this diagram.
• They carry oxygenated
blood away from the heart,
to all the organs in the body.
vessels
Arteries
Arteries (away from heart)
They carry blood at high pressure, and have a

small lumen to maintain a high pressure.
Also, due to this high pressure the arteries need to

have the ability to stretch and ‘recoil’. Muscular
wall and elastic fibres allow them to do this.
vessels

• Veins are also large
blood vessels.
• They are shown in blue
in this diagram.
• They carry deoxygenated
blood back to the heart
from the organs.
vessels
Veins (way-in to heart)

Vein
The blood returning from the body is at a much
lower pressure than that fired out by the beating
heart. So veins do not need to be as strong as
arteries and have a much wider lumen and thinner
walls.
The other main difference is that veins

have valves inside them, to keep the blood flowing
in the correct direction.
vessels

Take
Deliver
• Capillaries are the carbon
oxygen
smallest blood vessels. dioxide
to the
They are found in every from the
cells
organ of the body. cells
• Capillaries have thin walls,

so that oxygen and carbon
dioxide can be exchanged
between the blood and
cells.
vessels
Capillaries
• Capillaries (tiny – where gas exchange takes place)
• Capillaries are made up of a single layer of endothelial cells around a very small lumen.
• Molecules can easily move into and out of the capillaries by diffusion.
• They are tiny so they can ‘fit’ between cells
vessels
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Which blood vessel carries blood away from the heart?

Type question here
A. Veins
PLENARY
B. Capillaries
C. Ventricles
D. Arteries
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vessels
WhichType
blood vessel
question group includes the aorta?
here
A. Veins
PLENARY
B. Arteries
C. Capilaries
D. valves
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vessels
Which blood vessels carry blood at the lowest pressure?
Type question here
A. Capillaries
PLENARY
B. Veins
C. Arteries
D. Arterioles
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vessels
WhichType
of the following
question here statements is not true?
A. Arteries carry blood at high pressure

PLENARY
B. Veins carry oxygenated blood
C. Capillaries join arteries and veins
D. Veins carry deoxygenated blood
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vessels
WhatType
makes a capillary
question here good at it’s job?
thin walls
PLENARY
small diameter
form large network
All of the above
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Describe the role of muscles in Describe the structure and

Explain the differences between

Muscles and circulation

Write your question in your exercise book and answer it

The Circulatory System

• The heart’s function is to pump

• First, blood is pumped to the

Veins (way-in to heart)

Capillaries (location of gas exchange)

The Circulatory System

They carry blood at high pressure, and have a

Also, due to this high pressure the arteries need to

The Circulatory System

Veins (way-in to heart)

The other main difference is that veins

The Circulatory System

• Capillaries have thin walls,

Which blood vessel carries blood away from the heart?

A. Arteries carry blood at high pressure

B. Veins carry oxygenated blood

C. Capillaries join arteries and veins

D. Veins carry deoxygenated blood

form large network

All of the above

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