Body Cavities

Question 1

Dorsal Cavity

Answer 1

Protects the nervous system

Question 2

What are the two Dorsal Cavities?

Answer 2

Cranial and Vertebral

Question 3

Ventral Cavity

Answer 3

Houses the internal organs (viscera)

Question 4

What are the two Ventral Cavities

Answer 4

Thoracic and abdominopelvic

Question 5

Thoracic Cavity

Answer 5

Contains the heart and the lungs

Question 6

What are the two subgroups of the Thoracic cavity

Answer 6

Pleural and Pericardial

Question 7

Pleural

Answer 7

Two of them, house the Lungs

Question 8

Pericardial

Answer 8

encloses the heart

Question 9

What are the two subgroups of the abdominopelvic cavity?

Answer 9

Abdominal and Pelvic

Question 10

Abdominal Cavity

Answer 10

Contain digestive viscera: stomach,intestines, spleen, liver, and other organs

Question 11

Pelvic Cavity

Answer 11

Contains the Bladder, Reproductive organs, and Rectum

Question 12

What is the ventral body cavity?

Answer 12

Thoracic and abdominopelvic cavities
and the diaphragm

Question 13

Ventral Body Cavity Membranes

Answer 13

Parietal serosa, Visceral Serosa, Serous Fluid

Question 14

Parietal Serosa

Answer 14

Lines internal Body walls

Question 15

Visceral Serosa

Answer 15

Covers the internal organs

Question 16

serous Fluids

Answer 16

separates the serosae

Question 17

Abdominopelvic Regions

Answer 17

9 of them :
Right and Left Hypochondriac Region
Right and left Lumbar region
Right and Left iliac (inguinal) region
Epigastric region
umbilical region
Hypogastric (pubic) region