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heart function

1. The Circulatory System

2. What makes your heart beats fast?

3. The Circulatory System is responsible for transporting materials throughout the entire body. It transports nutrients, water, and oxygen to your billions of body cells and carries away wastes such as carbon dioxide that body cells produce. It is an amazing highway that travels through your entire body connecting all your body cells.

4. Components Heart Blood Vessels 🞑 Arteries 🞑 Veins 🞑 Capillaries Heart Blood Arteries Veins

5. Which gases are transported to and from the body’s cells by the blood flowing in the circulatory system ? carbon dioxide oxygen Oxygen is the gas needed for respiration and is transported to the body’s cells.

6. The circulatory system carries two types of blood Arrangement of the circulatory system means that these two types of blood do not mix. Oxygen- rich blood Oxygen- poor blood Blood travelling to the body cells High oxygen content Low carbon dioxide content Blood travelling away from the body cells Low oxygen content High carbon dioxide content Oxygen- rich blood

7. The heart is the organ at the centre of the circulatory system. It pumps blood around the body.

8. The inside of the heart is divided into two sections so that the two types of blood ( oxygen- rich and oxygen- poor ) are kept apart Oxygen- poor blood Right side of the heart Oxygen- rich blood Left side of the heart Oxygen- poor blood Right side of the heart

9. Heart coverings 🞑 Pericardium Covers the heart and large blood vessels attached to the heart Visceral pericardium Innermost layer Directly on the heart Parietal pericardium Layer on top of the visceral pericardium

10. Pericardium 🞑 Protective sac of connective tissue 🞑 Surrounds the heart 🞑 Filled with fluid

11. Heart walls: 🞑 Epicardium Outermost layer Fat to cushion heart 🞑 Myocardium Middle layer Primarily cardiac muscle 🞑 Endocardium Innermost layer Thin and smooth Stretches as the heart pumps

12. Myocardium 🞑 The muscle of the heart 🞑 Strong and thick 🞑 Composed of spontaneously contracting cardiac muscle fibers 🞑 Can conduct electricity like nerves. 🞑 It’s blood supply comes from the coronary arteries.

13. Activity 1: Answer the following questions . Why heart plays an important role in the Human body? ( E xplain your answer in not less than 60 words ) Why Heart Covering plays an important role in our Hearts? (Explain your answer in not less than 60 words ) How heart play a crucial role in the other organs in our body? (Explain your answer in not less than 60 words )

14. The right and left sides of the heart are separated by a septum , or wall. The septum prevents the mixing of oxygen rich and oxygen poor blood. On each side of the septum are two chambers. The upper chamber (receives blood) is the atrium. The lower chamber (pumps blood out of heart) is the ventricle.

15. Four chambers 🞑 Two Atria Upper chambers Left and right Separated by interatrial septum 🞑 Two Ventricles Lower chambers Left and right Separated by interventricular septum Right Ventricle Right Atrium Left Ventricle Left Atrium

16. The chambers of the heart have different functions: blood to the body blood from the body blood to the lungs blood from the lungs The Atria collect blood that enters the heart . The ventricles pump blood out of the heart .

17. The valves between the atria and ventricles are connected to the inner walls of the heart by tough tendons . valve open

18. The tendons allow the valves to close and hold the valve flaps in place. They prevent the valves from flipping up and turning inside out valve closed

19. A valve acts like a door that only opens in one direction. If the door is held by someone at a fixed point, only the arm moves as the door opens and closes. When the door is closed the arm is fully extended , so the door can only be opened in one direction .

20. A valve acts like a door that only opens in one direction. In the heart , the tendons holding the valve are like the arm holding the door. One end of each tendon is fixed to the wall of the heart and so the valve can only open in one direction .

21. The heart can pump blood because it is made of muscle. Muscle tissue works by contracting (squeezing) and relaxing .

22. All the parts of the heart on either side, work together in a repeated sequence. The two atria contract and relax; then the two ventricles contract and relax. This is how blood moves through the heart and is pumped to the lungs and the body. One complete sequence of contraction and relaxation is called a heartbeat .

23. As blood moves through the circulatory system it moves through 3 types of blood vessels: 🞑 Arteries: Carry blood away from the heart . 🞑 Capillaries: Link arterioles to veins. 🞑 Veins: Carry blood towards the heart

24. Arteries Large vessels Carry blood from heart to tissues of body. Carry oxygen rich blood, with the exception of pulmonary arteries. Thick walls- need to withstand pressure produced when heart pushes blood into them. Capillaries Smallest blood vessels Walls are only one cell thick and very narrow. Important for bringing nutrients and oxygen to tissues and absorbing CO 2 and other waste products .

25. Once blood has passed through the capillary systems it must be returned to the heart. Done by veins Walls contains connective tissue and smooth muscle. Largest veins contain one way valves that keep blood flowing toward heart. Many found near skeletal muscles. When muscles contract, blood is forced through veins.

26. The heart produces pressure The force of blood on the wall of the arteries is known as blood pressure. Blood pressure decreases as the heart relaxes, but the rest of the circulatory system is still under pressure.

27. When blood pressure is taken, the cuff is wrapped around the upper portion of the arm and pumped with air until blood flow in the artery is blocked. As the pressure in the cuff is relaxed, 2 numbers are recorded. 🞑 Systolic pressure- the first number taken, is the force felt in the arteries when the ventricles contract. 🞑 Diastolic pressure- the second number taken, is the force of the blood on the arteries when the ventricles relax.

28. Blood What percent of your body is blood? How much blood do we contain? 🞑 On average 4-6 liters 🞑 We contain about a pint of blood for every 15 pounds of body weight Composition of Blood: 🞑 What percent of your blood is cellular? 🞑 What percent of your blood is plasma? 8% 45% 55%

29. Blood Composed of plasma and blood cells Types of Cells are: 🞑 Red Blood Cells 🞑 White Blood Cells 🞑 Platelets  Plasma 🞑 Straw colored 🞑 90% water 🞑 10% dissolved gases, salts, nutrients, enzymes, hormones, wastes, and proteins.

30. Blood Plasma proteins 🞑 3 Types: Albumins, globulins and fibrinogen . 🞑 Albumins and Globulins - transport substances such as fatty acids, hormones and vitamins. 🞑 Fibrinogen - Responsible for blood’s ability to clot  Red Blood Cells 🞑 Most numerous type 🞑 Transport oxygen 🞑 Get color from hemoglobin 🞑 Disk shaped 🞑 Made in red bone marrow 🞑 Circulate for 120 days

31. White Blood Cells 🞑 Guard against infection, fight parasites, and attack bacteria 🞑 Number of WBC’s increases when body is fighting 🞑 Lymphocytes produce antibodies which fight pathogens and remember them  Platelets 🞑 Aid the body in clotting 🞑 Small fragments 🞑 Stick to edges of broken blood cell and secrete clotting factor to help form clot. Blood

32. Blood Functions 🞑 Transport 🞑 Protection 🞑 Temperature Regulation Plasma Red Blood Blood has 3 main Cells Platelets White Blood Cells

33. End of Lesson