The circulatory system takes oxygen and nutrients to all the tissues of the body

It takes waste products (p.e carbon dioxide) to the organs that eliminates them

It includes the heart, blood

vessels and the blood
THE HEART

 It is a muscular organ inside the rib cage between the lungs

 It is a natural pump that pushes blood through blood vessels


 It has got 4 open spaces called chambers

Right Atrium Left Atrium UPPER CHAMBERS
Right Ventricle Left Ventricle LOWER CHAMBERS

Blood enters the heart, it goes to the right atrium or to the

left atrium

It goes to the ventricles

When the ventricules contract

They push blood out of the heart

Septum
It divides the heart in two
sides : right and left
 Arteries
They carry blood away from the heart to the tissues of the body

Veins
They carry blood back to the heart again
Blood Vessels are special tubes
that carry blood all around the
body
Capillaries
They are tiny blood vessels
They connect the smallest arteries to the smallest veins
They have very thin walls gases, nutrients and waste products go through
them
Bloodl
red blood cells
they carry oxigen
they can carry some carbon dioxide

Blood : blood cells white blood cells fight the

infections in the body
It is a red liquid that
flows through blood
vessels
liquid plasma platelets help form a solid clot when there is a
cut in a blood vessel
The excretory system eliminates waste products and harmful substances from the body

SWEAT GLANDS

We have got millions of sweat glands

They produce sweat

Sweat is a liquid which contains When you sweat you loose water

Water You need to drink to replace it

Waste product Important

Mineral salts If you feel hot

If you have fever

 kidneys
they are two bean -shaped organs next to the spinal column
¡The urinary tract they filter blood to remove waste
they mix waste with water to produc urine

Ureters
Urinary they are two thin tubes that carry urine from the kidneys to the bladder
tract
Bladder
It is a bag-shaped organ with muscular walls.
it stores the urine until you go to the toilet

Urethra
it carries the urine out of you body when you go to the toilet

The urinary tract filters the blood to remove waste product and harmful substances

The renal arteries carry blood to the

kidneys
the waste and other substances
dissolve in water to form urine
when the bladder is full
Urethers carry urine to the
bladder where it is stored it contracts and pushes the urine out
of the body through the urethra