4.1 The body's transport system

The Body’s Transport System

​Chapter 4 Lesson 1

​Objectives

Explain the functions of the cardiovascular

system.

Describe the function and structure of the heart.

Sequence the path blood follows through the

cardiovascular system.

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Read "my planet diary" and answer the following questions:

1. Why is it important for a person’s heart

to be healthy?

2. About how many times does your heart

beat in a week? In a year?

• The cardiovascular system

  delivers blood to all parts of the body, carrying necessary substances to cells and carrying waste materials away from cells.

• Blood contains cells that fight disease, as well.

What Is the Role of the Heart?

Without your heart your blood would not go anywhere. The heart is a hollow, muscular organ. The heart pumps blood to the body through blood vessels.

The Heart’s Structure

The heart has a right side and left

side that are completely separated by a wall of tissue called the septum. Each side has two chambers. Each upper chamber, called an atrium (AY tree um; plural atria), receives blood that comes into the heart. Each lower chamber, called a ventricle, pumps blood out of the heart. The pacemaker, a group of cells in the right atrium, sends out signals that make the heart muscle contract. The signals regulate heart rate.

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Match

Match the following

• STEP 1 AND 2

• STEP 3

• STEP 4

• STEP 5

• STEP 6

The heart relaxes and atria fill with blood. The atria contract.

The blood moves into ventricles

The ventricles contract

The valves between atria and ventricles shut;blood goes into vessels

the valves between the ventricles and vessels shut

• The heart relaxes and atria fill with blood. The atria contract.

• The blood moves into ventricles

• The ventricles contract

• The valves between atria and ventricles shut;blood goes into vessels

• the valves between the ventricles and vessels shut

Labelling

In each

box, write where the blood

from the heart travels to.

LOOP 1 AND LOOP 2

Drag labels to their correct position on the image

TO BODY

TO LUNGS

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