The Heart

1. About how many times does your heartbeat daily?

2. Every minuet, your heart pumps _________ gallons of blood?

3. What are the two main functions of the heart?

4. The heart is located under the _________ and between the ___________?

5. On average, the heart is about the size of a person’s ___________ __________?

6. The upper two chambers of the heart, the ____________, receive and ____________ blood?

7. The lower two chambers of the heart, the _______________, _____________ blood out of the
heart?

8. How many valves does the heart have?

9. What are the names of the heart valves?

10. What is the main purpose of the heart valves?

11. Deoxygenated blood returning from the upper body flows through the _______________
__________ __________ to reach the heart

12. Deoxygenated blood returning to the heart from the lower body flows through the
___________ ___________ ___________ to reach the heart?
13. The ______________ and _______________ vena cava empty blood into the _____________?

14. Blood from the right atrium goes through the __________valve to reach the _________
ventricle?

15. After the blood leaves the right ventricle, what valve does it pass through?

16. After the blood flows through the pulmonary semilunar valve, it then flows into the __________
and left _____________ arteries?

17. Where do the pulmonary arteries take the blood?

18. What happens to the blood in the lungs?

19. Where does the transfer from carbon dioxide and oxygen take place?

20. When the right and left pulmonary arteries bring oxygenated blood back to the heart, where
does it go?

21. What heart valve separated the left atrium from the left ventricle?

22. What blood vessel does the left ventricle empty into?