Heart Structure

Question 1

Atria:

Answer 1

Receives blood returning to the heart from other areas of the body.

Question 2

Ventricles:

Answer 2

Pump blood around the entire body.

Question 3

Vena Cava:

Answer 3

The large vein going into the right atrium of the heart carrying deoxygenated blood from the body.

Question 4

Pulmonary Arteries:

Answer 4

Carry deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle of the heart to the lungs.

Question 5

Pulmonary Veins:

Answer 5

Collects the oxygenated blood and carry it from the lungs back to the heart through the left atrium.

Question 6

Aorta:

Answer 6

Main artery that carries oxygenated blood away from your heart to the rest of your body

Question 7

Valves:

Answer 7

Heart valves play a key role in the never-ending cycle of blood through the heart:
They keep the blood from getting lazy and retracing its journey, leaking backward into the chambers it has just left.

Question 8

Tricuspid Valve:

Answer 8

Situated between the right atrium and right ventricle.

Consists of thin flaps of tissue which open to let blood flow from the right atrium to the right ventricle.

Question 9

Bicuspid Valve:

Answer 9

The valveallows blood to flow from the left ventricle to the aorta and prevents blood from flowing backward.

Question 10

Semi-Lunar Valve:

Answer 10

The twosemilunar valvesare located in the arteries allowing the blood movement from the heart to prevent it from returning back to the ventricles duringsystole.

Question 11

Coronary Arteries:

Answer 11

Supply blood to the heart muscle