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Directions
Click on the two pictures of the heart below and answer the questions to the right of each.
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Research Questions:
1. What part of the heart accepts oxygen-poor blood?
2. What happens to the blood when it reaches the lungs?
3. What does the left ventricle do? Is the blood oxygen-rich or oxygen-poor?
4. Why is the right atrium on the left side of the diagram?
5. About how many times does your heart beat each day? Each year? In your lifetime? |
Click on the picture to navigate to (www.pbs.org). PBS provides a step by step journey that blood takes through the heart. |
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Research Questions:
1. How many people died last year in the US waiting for a heart transplant? How many hearts were successfully transplanted?
2. How long does it take (usually) to transplant a heart?
Click on the Operation: Heart Transplant link and answer the following (note: you may need to download Shockwave software):
1. Briefly list the steps needed to perform a heart transplant.
2. What does the chest retractor do?
3. What is the pericardium?
4. Name one blood vessel that a hemostat clamps.
5. What makes up a suture? |
Think you know how the heart works? Try this interactive operation provided by PBS. |
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