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Heart Animation
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OVERVIEW OF THE HEART
1. How large is a typical heart?
2. How much blood flows through the heart each minute?
HEART CHAMBER
3. What is the name of the two upper chambers of the human heart and the two lower
chambers, what are the names for the division between the left and right side of the
heart.?
HEART VALVES
4. Watch and listen to the animation in figure 1, what is responsible for making the lubb
and then dubb sounds—be specific!
5. View and identify the valves that separate the atria and ventricles. What did we call
this valve on the left side? Identify the valves that are in the pulmonary artery and aorta.
BLOOD FLOW THROUGH YOUR HEART AND LUNGS
6. Deoxygenated blood from the body enters which chamber?
7. Where does blood move after leaving the first chamber?
8. Name the blood vessels that carry blood from the heart to the lungs.
9. Name the blood vessels that carry blood from the lungs to the heart.
10. Name the chamber of the heart that blood enters upon returning to the heart from the
lungs.
11. Where does the blood move upon leaving this chamber?
12. In what blood vessel does travel when it leaves the heart to the body?
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM OF THE HEART
13. Explain the how the SA Node and AV Node function in conducting the
electrochemical signal of muscle contraction.
ELECTRICAL SIGNALS AND BLOOD FLOW
14. Describe what is meant by a sinus rhythm and an arrhythmia.
15. Be sure to view the path of an electrical signal animations.
INTRO TO BLOOD VESSELS
16. Compare the structure of arteries, veins and capillaries
BLOOD VESSELS IN YOUR HEART
17. Describe what is meant by coronary arteries and veins and those that are most likely
to become blocked.