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The heart is an organ. Which of these are also organs and which are not?
Brain Cell Skin Nerve Nucleus Liver Eye Cytoplasm

Not an organ

Organ

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How much do you know about the heart?

! The heart has four chambers. ! The heart is the largest organ in the body. ! The heart contains valves. ! The heart contains cardiac muscle.
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False
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How much do you know about the heart?

! The heart contains chambers known as the atrium. ! The heart is not an organ. ! The left side of the heart pumps blood to the lungs.
True
False
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The heart pumps blood around the body. The following pages describe the pathway of blood through the heart.

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Stage 1 Blood enters the heart through a vein known as the vena cava. The blood is low in oxygen. The first chamber it goes into is the right atrium.
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Where do you think the blood has come from?

The body

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Stage 2 The heart pumps the blood from the right atrium into the right ventricle.

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What stops the blood from going back into the atrium?

Valves

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Stage 3 The heart pumps the blood from the right ventricle through the pulmonary artery towards the lungs.

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Why does the blood go to the lungs?

To pick up oxygen

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Stage 4 The blood returns from the lungs with lots of oxygen and re-enters the heart through the left atrium.

What do we call blood with lots of oxygen in it?

Oxygenated blood

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Stage 5 The heart pumps the blood from the left atrium into the left ventricle.

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Which side of the heart has more muscle?

The left

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Stage 6 The heart then pumps the blood from the left ventricle out of the heart to the rest of the body through the aorta.

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Is the aorta a vein or an artery?

An artery

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In reality, stages one to three occur at the same time as stages four to six. Blood enters and exits both sides of the heart at the same time.

Press the image below to link to an animation showing the pathway of blood through the heart.

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The following pages are answers to the tasks in the lesson activity.

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Brain Cell Skin Nerve

Organ

Nucleus Liver Eye

Not an organ
Organ Organ

Not an organ
Organ

Not an organ

Cytoplasm Not an organ

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How much do you know about the heart?

! The heart has four chambers. ! The heart is the largest organ in the body. ! The heart contains valves. ! The heart contains cardiac muscle.
True
False

True True
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How much do you know about the heart?

! The heart contains chambers known as the atrium. ! The heart is not an organ. ! The left side of the heart pumps blood to the lungs.

True

False False
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