1. How many chambers does the heart have?:
Answer 4 chambers which are divided inleft and right sides
2. Where does the atria pump blood to?:
Answer Ventricles
3. Where does the right ventricle pump blood to?:
Answer Lungs
4. Where does the left ventricle pump blood to?:
Answer Body
5. Pulmonary circuit:
Answer
Atria receive incoming blood, and ventricles pump outgoingblood to lungs, and then body.
Is also a one-way valve that keeps blood flowing in the proper direction
6. Systemic circuit:
Answer Aorta receives blood ejected from left ventricle and bloodcirculates throughout
the body, returns to heart via vena cava
7. Cardiac output (CO):
Answer
Amount of blood ejected by a ventricle in 1 minute
CO = SV x HR (heart rate)
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