THE HEART AND CIRCULATION

30.3

KEY CONCEPT
The heart is a muscular pump that
moves the blood through two pathways.

MAIN IDEA: The tissues and structures of the heart make it an efficient pump.
Fill in the pattern notes with the main chambers and valves of the heart. Use Figure 30.7 in
textbook to help you.

RIGHT LEFT

1. right atrium 3.
left atrium

tricuspid valve aortic valve

Heart
structures

2. 4.
right ventricle left ventricle

pulmonary valve mitral valve

5. Explain what makes the heart such an efficient, self-regulating pump.

The myocardium does the main pumping work: It relaxes to fill with blood and then squeezes

(contracts) to pump the blood. Your heart pumps oxygen-rich blood to its own muscle through

your coronary arteries. Keep blood flowing efficiently.

6. After the SA node stimulates the atria to contract, what happens next in the heartbeat
cycle?
-AV node then picks up the signal -transmits it to both ventricle

-causing them to contract

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Fill in the process diagram below to summarize the blood flow in the heart.

Oxygen-poor blood The right ventricle The left atrium recieves The left ventricle
flows into right atrium, pumps oxygen-poor oxygen-rich blood from pumps oxygen-rich
then is pumped into blood to the lungs the lungs and pumps blood to all parts of
the right ventricle.
it to the left ventricle the

MAIN IDEA: The heart pumps blood through two main pathways.
7. What are the main functions of the pulmonary circulation and the systemic circulation?
Pulmonary circulation moves blood between the heart and the lungs. It transports deoxygenated

blood to the lungs to absorb oxygen and release carbon dioxide. The oxygenated blood then

flows back to the heart. Systemic circulation moves blood between the heart and the rest of the body.

NEXT PAGE……. TRACE FLOW OF BLOOD THROUGH THE HEART IN DIAGRAM

 Blood Flow in the Heart

1. From: upper body

4. To: upper body

2. To: lungs
5. To: lungs

6. From: lungs
3. From: lungs

Right atrium: Left atrium:

recieves oxygen
poor blood from recieves oxygen-rich
the body and pumps bloof from from the
it to the heart lungs and pumps it
to the left ventricle

7. To:

Right ventricle: Left ventricle:

pumps oxygen-poor pumps oxygen-rich blood

8. From: lower body
blood to the lungs to all the parts of the heart
to lower body