The Heart Name:___________

Structure of the Heart

How many chambers make up the heart?

Which chambers pump blood out of the heart?

Which chambers receive blood back into the heart?

What is the wall of the heart made of?

Why is the left side of the heart bigger than the right side of the heart?

Heart Valves

How many types of valve are there?

What do the valves do?

How does the function of the bicuspid and tricuspid valves differ from the semilunar valves?

Coronary Arteries

Why does the tissue which makes up the heart need its own supply of blood?

Which blood vessels supply heart tissue with blood?

What could happen if the blood supply to the heart tissue is interrupted?
Blood Flow through the Heart

On your diagram of the heart shown above indicate the direction of blood flow through the heart with arrows.

Towards or
Name of blood vessel Blood? Walls?
away from heart

....................... Oxygenated Thin Towards

........................ Oxygenated Thick Away from

......................... Deoxygenated Thick Away from

......................... Deoxygenated Thin Towards

How does the heart pump blood around the body?

Arrange these events of one complete heart beat cycle in the correct order starting with F.

A. The left ventricle contracts and blood flows along the aorta to the body

B. The blood flows through the right tricuspid valve into the right ventricle.

C. Oxygenated blood flows along the pulmonary veins into the left atrium

D. The blood passes through the mitral valve into the left ventricle

E. The left atrium contracts

F. Deoxygenated blood flows from the vena cava into the right atrium.

G. The deoxygenated blood picks up oxygen

H. The right atrium contracts

I. The right ventricle contracts and blood flows along the pulmonary artery to the lungs