What is the cardiovascular system? What are its main components? Describe the heart and how it functions. List the three major types of blood vessels and their basic functions. Compare and contrast the pulmonary and systemic circulations. What is blood? What are its chief constituents? True or False. The circulatory system brings blood to and from the body, while the cardiovascular system brings blood to and from the lungs only. True or False. Arteries carry mainly oxygenated blood. Name three different types of substances that are transported by the cardiovascular system. Describe where and how the pulmonary and systemic circulation systems meet. Which of the following carries blood to the lungs? Choose all that apply. A. Left pulmonary artery B. Left pulmonary vein C. Right pulmonary artery D. Right pulmonary vein Put the following structures in order of how blood flows from the heart out to the body and back again. capillaries; venules; aorta; veins; arteries Explain why the heart and lungs need blood from the systemic circulation. Choose one. Blood vessels carrying deoxygenated blood from the body back to the heart get increasingly (larger/smaller). Blood becomes oxygenated in the lungs through gas exchange into: A. Arterioles B. Capillaries C. Venules D. Bronchioles Which type of blood cell carries oxygen?