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7th grade sci heart
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Heart | pushes or pumps blood through your body |
| Circulatory | the heart vessels and blood are all part of the system |
| Ventricles | what are the lower chambers of the heart called |
| Lower chambers of the heart | pump blood to the lungs and body |
| Lungs | in the first loop of circulation blood collects oxygen after being pumped into the |
| Arteries capillaries veins | blood flows through blood vessels in this order |
| Aorta | the largest artery in the human body is the |
| Receive blood that has returned from the body | what is the function of the upper chambers of the heart |
| Valves | what are the flaps of tissue that prevent blood from flowing backwards |
| Arteries | which thick walled and muscular blood vessels carry blood away from the heart |
| Step one | the heart relaxes and the atria fill with blood |
| Step two | the valve between the Atria and ventricles open |
| step three | the blood flows from the atria to the ventricles |
| step four | the ventricles contracts |
| step five | the blood is pumped out of the heart |