Circulatory System(Review)

What do you call the life support structure that nourishes your cells with nutrients from the food you eat and oxygen from the air you breathe?

• Respiratory System

• Excretory System

• Digestive System

• Circulatory System

Transports oxygenated blood to virtually all of the tissues of the body and returns relatively deoxygenated blood and carbon dioxide to the heart to be sent back to the pulmonary circulation.

• pulmonary circuit

• systemic circuit

• coranary circuit

Transports blood to and from the lungs, where it picks up oxygen and delivers carbon dioxide for exhalation.

• coronary circuit

• systemic circuit

• pulmonary circuit

Carries the materials throughout the body.

• heart

• blood vessel

• blood

Carries the blood throughout the body.

• heart

• blood vessel

• blood

Pumps the blood throughout the body.

• heart

• blood vessel

• blood

The smallest blood vessel in the body, connecting the smallest arteries to the smallest veins.

• arteries

• veins

• capillaries

Carry oxygenated blood away from the heart to the cells, tissues and organs of the body.

• arteries

• veins

• capillaries

Carry deoxygenated blood to the heart.

• arteries

• veins

• capillaries

Receives blood from the pulmonary veins.

• right atrium

• left atrium

• right ventricle

• left ventricle