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The Transport System

The Transport System. Guide Question: Double Pump?. The transport system. The main transport system in humans consists of blood, the heart and blood vessels. It is called the cardiovascular system.

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The Transport System

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  1. The Transport System Guide Question: Double Pump?

  2. The transport system • The main transport system in humans consists of blood, the heart and blood vessels. It is called the cardiovascular system. • The heart is a double sided pump that works every minute of every day of your life. The blood that is pumped in and out of the heart passes through two separate circulations:

  3. Circulations http://leavingbio.net/circulatory%20system/CIRCULATORY%20SYSTEM_files/image034.jpg

  4. Label the human heart http://www.abcteach.com/free/h/heartcrosssection_bw.jpg

  5. The right side of the heart sends blood along the pulmonary circulation.

  6. The left side of the heart sends blood along the systemic circulation.

  7. http://www.cvphysiology.com/Arrhythmias/A002%20SAN-AVN.gif Control of the heart beat

  8. http://www.cvphysiology.com/Arrhythmias/A002%20SAN-AVN.gif Control of the heart beat

  9. http://www.cvphysiology.com/Arrhythmias/A002%20SAN-AVN.gif Control of the heart beat

  10. Blood vessels: http://www.nurse-prescriber.co.uk/education/visual_lib/pp109.jpg

  11. The walls of these blood vessels consist of a series of layers: http://www.nurse-prescriber.co.uk/education/visual_lib/pp109.jpg

  12. Characteristics of BloodVessels

  13. The structure of blood: http://www.jonbarron.org/sites/default/files/images/blood_components.gif

  14. Plasma is a fluid that contains:

  15. BloodCells

  16. Sources: • Regents Biology (2012 – 2013) Animal Nutrition, Human Digestion. (On Line) http://www.westlake.k12.oh.us/whsteachers/ crist/2012_2013/Bio/digestion_35.pdf. PPT modified from this source. • Allot, Andrew and Mindorff, David (2010) Biology Course Companion, (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press, New York. • Damon, Alan; McGonegal, Randy; Tosto, Patricia; and Ward, William. (2007) Biology Higher Level, Pearson Baccalaureate, London.

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