Heart

• Heart

  
  

  pumps blood through the body
• Left ventricle

  
  

  thicker wall- has to force blood all the way through the body
• Right ventricle

  
  

  Pushes blood to the lungs

  High pressure would damage capillaries
• Atria

  
  

  above ventricles and have thinner walls
• Pulmonary vein

  
  

  Brings oxygenated blood from lungs to left atrium
• Pulmonary artery

  
  

  takes deoxygenated blood to the lungs
• Vena cava

  
  

  carries deoxygenated to the heart
• Movement of blood:

  Vena cava, Right Atrium, Right Ventricle, Pulmonary Artery, Lungs, Pulmonary Vein, Left Atrium, Left Ventricle, Aorta, body, Vena cava