What do I do?
Where am I?
What do I look like?
Where do I go?
Where am I again?
100
I separate (divide) the left and right sides of the heart.
What is the septum?
100
My name means "main room"-we are both the "upper chambers" of the heart.
What are the atria? (plural of atrium)
100
I have valves to prevent backflow-blood moves in ONE DIRECTION through me-it cannot reverse direction.
What are veins?
100
Blood moves through me AWAY from the heart
What are arteries?
100
I am known as the pacemaker and I am located in the right atrium. I look like a small knot.
What is the sinoatrial node?
200
I am the "dub" of blood pressure. I measure the pressure of blood moving into the heart-the "resting" beat.
What is "diastolic pressure"?
200
We are the lower chambers of the heart.
What are the "ventricles"?
200
I am two numbers that measure how strongly the blood pumps through your body.
What is "blood pressure"?
200
Blood moves through me TOWARD the heart.
What are veins?
200
I am located in the septum and I signal the ventricles to contract.
What is the atrioventricular node?
300
I am the heart's "pacemaker".
What is the sinoatrial node?
300
I am at the exit and entrance of each chamber-my name comes from the root word meaning "folding door".
What are valves?
300
We have thick walls and are very strong. We push the blood back through the entire body and the lungs.
What are the ventricles?
300
During pulmonary ciculation,I flow from the right side of the heart to the lungs.
What is deoxygenated blood?
300
I am the upper vein which carries blood from the head.
What is the superior vena cava?
400
I am the "lub" of your heartbeat, I measure the pressure of your blood while your ventricles contract and simultaneously push blood out of the heart.
What is "systolic pressure"?
400
I am between the atria and the ventricles.
What are the atrioventricular valves?
400
I have three layers: the connective, the muscle and the endothenial layers
What are arteries?
400
During pulmonary circulation,I flow from the lungs to the left side of the heart.
What is oxygenated blood?
400
I am the lower vein that carries blood from the body.
What is the inferior vena cava?
500
I signal the ventricles to contract and push blood out of the heart.
What is the atrioventricular node?
500
I am between the ventricles and arteries. My name means half moon because that is my shape.
What are semilunar valves?
500
I am called a closed loop because blood is contained in a circular process
What is the "circulatory system"?
500
I carry blood away from the heart
What are arteries?
500
I am a large blood vessel at the top of the heart that carries blood to all parts of the body except for the lungs.
What is the aorta?
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