Cardiovascular System: Heart Anatomy

Cardiovascular System: Heart Anatomy

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What is the main function of the cardiovascular system?

• transport waste out of the body in the form of feces

• transport oxygen and nutrients to the cells of the body and remove cellular waste

• exchange gases with the environment

• transport nitrogen waste away from the cells and out of the body

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What is the fucntion of the heart?

• pump blood throughout the body

• provide a network of tubes through which blood can travel

• act as a vehicle to carry oxygen and nutrients

• none of these

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What is the function of the blood vessels?

• pump blood throughout the body

• provide a network of tubes through which blood can travel

• act as a vehicle to carry oxygen and nutrients

• none of these

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What is the function of the blood?

• pump blood throughout the body

• provide a network of tubes through which blood can travel

• act as a vehicle to carry oxygen and nutrients

• none of these

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The heart is made of which of the following types of muscles?

• Cardiac muscle

• Striated muscle

• Smooth muscle

• None of the above

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About how large is the human heart?

• the size of an onion
• the size of a fist
• 4.5 pounds

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A hollow, muscular organ that pumps blood throughout the body.

• Skeleton
• Heart
• Vein
• Artery

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What is the name of the double walled sac that surrounds the heart?

• Myocardium

• Epicardium

• Pericardium

• Endocardium

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What is the medical term for cardiac muscle?

• Myocardium

• Epicardium

• Pericardium

• Endocardium

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What cardiac tissue layer lines the chambers of the heart?

• Myocardium

• Epicardium

• Pericardium

• Endocardium

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Which structure separates the right and the left ventricles?

• Interatrial Septum

• Nasal Septum

• Interventricular Septum

• Fossa ovalis

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Identify:

• Vena Cava

• Aorta

• Pulmonary veins

• Pulmonary artery

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Identify:

• Left Ventricle

• Right Atrium

• Right Ventricle

• Left Atrium

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How many chambers does the human heart have?

• 4

• 2

• 3

• 5

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What vessels carry deoxygenated blood away from the heart?

• Neither coronary arteries or pulmonary artery

• Pulmonary artery only

• Both coronary arteries and pulmonary artery

• Coronary arteries only

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What divides the left side of the heart from the left side?

• Atrium

• Ventricles

• Wall

• Septum

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What is the correct path through the circulatory system which describes the passage of a blood clot originating in the left leg?

• Vena cava → left atrium → left ventricle → lungs → right atrium → right ventricle → aorta

• Vena cava → right atrium → right ventricle → lungs → left atrium → left ventricle → aorta

• Vena cava → left atrium → right atrium → lungs → left ventricle → right ventricle → aorta

• Vena cava → right atrium → left atrium → lungs → right ventricle → left ventricle → aorta

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What chamber pumps blood to the body?

• Right atrium
• Right ventricle
• Left atrium
• Left ventricle 

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When blood enters the right atrium, where is it coming from?

• The body
• Left ventricle
• Right Atrium
• Lungs

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_______ circulation takes blood from the heart to the lungs and back.

• Systemic
• Pulmonary
• Body
• Blood

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• Left atrium
• Right atrium
• Left ventricle
• Right ventricle

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• Left atrium
• Right atrium
• Left ventricle
• Right ventricle

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Blood from the Inferior and Superior Vena Cava is:

• Oxygenated

• Deoxygenated

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Deoxygenated blood travels from the right atrium to the right ventricle through this valve:

• Mitral Valve

• Aortic Valve

• Pulmonary Valve

• Tricuspid Valve

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Blood leaving the Pulmonary arteries and travelling to the lungs is:

• Oxygenated

• Deoxygenated

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Which side of the heart contains oxygenated blood?

• the right
• the left
• the superior region
• the inferior region

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• Pulmonary veins
• Pulmonary artery
• Aorta
• Vena cava

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Blood passing through the Pulmonary Valve is:

• Oxygenated

• Deoxygenated

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Which valves separate ventricles and arteries?

• The semi-lunar valves

• The atrioventricular valves

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The semi-lunar valves include:

• The bicuspid and the tricuspid

• The tricuspid and the aortic valve

• The aortic valve and the bicuspid

• The aortic valve and the pulmonary valve

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The chordae tendineae prevent the prolapse of:

• The aortic valve

• The pulmonary valve

• The atrioventricular valves

• The semi-lunar valves

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This structure prevents the backwards movement of blood:

• Ventricle

• Valve

• Atrium

• Vein

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Identify the circled valve

• Tricuspid
• Mitral
• Pulmonary
• Aortic

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Identify the circled valve

• Tricuspid
• Mitral
• Pulmonary
• Aortic

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Another name for the mitral valve

• Tricuspid
• Pulmonary
• Bicuspid
• Aortic

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Wall of the heart made up mostly of cardiac muscle

• Pericardium 
• Epicardium 
• Myocardium 
• Endocardium 

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The fluid-filled sac that covers the heart

• Pericardium
• Epicardium 
• Myocardium 
• Endocardium 

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Un-oxygenated blood enters the right atrium from the bottom of the heart.

• inferior vena cava
• superior vena cava
• pulmonary veins