Parts of the Heart
Blood Flow
Miscellaneous
100
What is the top of the heart called?
What is the apex?
100
The blood from your upper body enters through _____ while the blood from your lower body enters through the _____________. (Order of answers matter)
What are the superior and inferior vena cava?
100
The name of the icebreaker we played.
What is birdie on a perch?
200
What is the largest artery in the human body?
What is the aorta?
200
The blood from the right atrium flows through the ____________ valve to get emptied into the right __________.
What is the tricuspid valve and the right ventricle?
200
This is the bridge from the heart to the body.
What is the aorta?
300
What is another name for the semi-lunar valve?
What is the aortic valve?
300
This closes as the left ventricle contracts, thus forcing the blood to exit through the aorta.
What is mitral/bicuspid valve?
300
Name the three layers of the heart.
What are epicardium, myocardium and endocardium?
400
This carries deoxygenated blood from the right and left pulmonary arteries to the ________. (Two blanks)
What are the pulmonary trunk and lungs?
400
What happens after both ventricles contract? Why?
What is the tricuspid and bicuspid valve close? To prevent incorrect flow.
400
The length of one cardiac cycle
What is 0.8 seconds?
500
This is the type of cells found in your myocardium.
What is cardiomyocytes?
500
Name the first four steps in the flow of blood in the heart.
What is the superior/inferior vena cava, right atria, tricuspid valve, right ventricle?
500
Name five parts of the heart.
What are the left and right atria, left and right ventricles, aorta, inferior/superior vena cava, tricuspid valve, bicuspid valve, pulmonary valve