Heart Chambers & Valves
These are the two upper chambers of the heart that receive blood
What is the right atrium and left atrium?
Oxygen-poor blood enters the heart here, the upper right chamber, from the body.
What is the right atrium?
These arteries supply oxygen-rich blood directly to the heart muscle itself.
What are the coronary arteries?
This valve is between the right atrium and right ventricle, and it has three flaps.
What is the tricuspid valve?
After picking up oxygen in the lungs, blood returns to the heart and enters this upper left chamber through the pulmonary veins.
What is the left atrium?
This type of circulation carries blood from the heart to the lungs to get oxygen, then back to the heart.
What is pulmonary circulation?
This valve is between the left atrium and left ventricle, and it's the only one with two flaps instead of three.
What is the mitral valve or the bicuspid valve?
This is the strong lower chamber that pumps oxygen-rich blood out to the whole body through the aorta
What is the left ventricle?
This type of circulation carries oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the rest of the body and returns oxygen-poor blood to the heart.
What is systemic circulation?
It is the only artery in the human body that carries deoxygenated blood, traveling from the right ventricle to the lungs
What is the pulmonary arteries
This chamber of the heart receives deoxygenated blood from the right atrium and pumps it through the pulmonary valve to the lungs.
What is the right ventricle
The heart acts as a _______________, working continuously
Double pump
This semilunar valve sits between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery to prevent backflow
What is pulmonary valve
What connects your left ventricle and aorta
What is aortic valve
________ increases when the heart works harder.
Blood flow