Cardiovascular System (Week 2)
Superior and Inferior Vena Cava
Step 1 Where blood enters the heart from the body.
Mitral Valve
Step 10 Blood leaving the Left Atrium must pass through this valve. *Also known as the Bicuspid Valve.
Left Ventricle
Step 11 What chamber of the heart does blood travel after passing through the Bicuspid Valve.
Aortic Semilunar Valve
Step 12 The valve between the Left Ventricle and the Ascending Aorta. 4th Valve of the Heart
Ascending Aorta
Step 13 Between the Aortic Semilunar Valve and the Aorta Arch. First of the three parts of the Aorta.
Aorta Arch
Step 14 The bend of the Aorta. Between the Ascending Aorta and Descending Aorta.
Descending Aorta
Step 15 This is the part where this large artery completes its arch and starts a downward slope on the back of the heart.
Right Atrium
Step 2 Where blood flows to after entering through the vena cava. The 1st chamber of the heart
Tricuspid Valve
Step 3 The first valve blood passes through after entering the heart.
Right Ventricle
Step 4 After passing through the tricuspid valve the blood flows to the _____________. 2nd chamber of the heart.
Pulmonary Semilunar Valve
Step 5 After the blood flows through the right ventricle the blood will pass through which valve?
Pulmonary Trunk
Step 6 The blood of the heart has flown from the Pulmonary Semilunar Valve where does it flow through before making it to the Pulmonary Arteries?
Right and Left Pulmonary Arteries
Step 7 Blood travel through the Pulmonary Trunk to _________. *Don't forget Right and Left.
Right and Left Pulmonary Veins
Step 8 Where blood re-enters the heart after traveling through the lungs.
Left Atrium
Step 9 Blood has traveled through the pulmonary veins to which chamber of the heart? 3rd Chamber of the Heart.