Across
- 2. Although nerves aren’t responsible for cardiac contracts, innervation by the parasympathetic and sympathetic nerves can affect cardiac ________.
- 3. Blood traveling through the atrial chamber and leaving the ventricles moves from low to high _________.
- 5. During which phase of the cardiac cycle is blood pumped out of the heart?
- 7. Which arteries are responsible for supplying blood to the heart muscle?
- 10. The second “lub” heart sound is caused by closure of the aortic and ______ valves.
- 12. When the lungs are filling with air the ventricles are ______.
- 13. The process of blood flowing from the atria, a place of high pressure, to the ventricles, a place of low pressure, without muscle contraction is called ______ filling.
- 14. Which heart cells create an electrical signal that ensures heart contraction?
- 15. The _____ valve separates the left ventricle and the aorta.
- 16. This diagram represents the relationship between volume and pressure in the atria, ventricles, and aorta.
- 18. During the _______ phase of the cardiac cycle, ventricular pressure rises above aortic pressure to open the aortic valve.
- 19. The first “lub” heart sound is caused by closure of the ______ and tricuspid valves.
Down
- 1. During which phase of the cardiac cycle is it sometimes possible to hear a third “lub,” caused by a rapid filling of the ventricles?
- 4. On an ECG reading, the T wave is produced by ventricular ________.
- 6. When blood leaves the heart to travel though the rest of the body it is _______.
- 8. On an ECG reading, the P wave is produced by atrial ______.
- 9. When open, which valve allows blood to flow from the atria to the ventricles?
- 11. Blood flows through the heart in an ______ manner.
- 17. The cells at the _______ node as the heart’s pacemaker.
- 20. During what phase of ventricular contraction is the pressure in the left ventricle lower than the pressure in the aorta?
