Cardiovascular System

Question 1

Arteries

Answer 1

Bring blood away from the heart

Question 2

Veins

Answer 2

Bring blood back to the heart

Question 3

Arterioles

Answer 3

Smaller arteries connecting capillaries to arteries

Question 4

Venules

Answer 4

Smaller veins connecting capillaries to veins

Question 5

Capillaries

Answer 5

Where diffusion of gases and substance exchange occurs

Question 6

Pericardium

Answer 6

Double layer sack surrounding the heart for protection

Question 7

Myocardium

Answer 7

Cardiac muscle. Heart muscles

Question 8

Tricuspid Valve (right atrioventricular)

Answer 8

Valve between right atrium and right ventricle

Question 9

Bicuspid Valve (or left atrioventricular)

Answer 9

Valve between left atrium and left ventricle

Question 10

Pulmonary Valve

Answer 10

Blood moves through the right ventricle and then through this valve

Question 11

Aortic Valve

Answer 11

Blood moves through the left ventricle and then passes through this valve

Question 12

Superior Vena Cava

Answer 12

Carries DO2 blood to the heart from above the diaphragm

Question 13

Inferior Vena Cava

Answer 13

Carries DO2 blood to the heart from below the diaphragm

Question 14

Pulmonary Trunk

Answer 14

Blood flows here after pulmonary valve

Question 15

Pulmonary Arteries

Answer 15

Blood flows here after passing through the pulmonary trunk out to the lungs

Question 16

Pulmonary Veins

Answer 16

Oxygenated blood reenters the heart from the lungs through these into the left atrium

Question 17

Aorta (ascending, arch, and descending)

Answer 17

Blood enters this after passing through the aortic valve

Question 18

Right coronary artery

Answer 18

Between atrium and ventricles

Question 19

Major branches of right coronary artery

Answer 19

Posterior interventricular branch and Right marginal artery

Question 20

Left coronary artery

Answer 20

Between atrium and ventricles

Question 21

Major branches of left coronary artery

Answer 21

Anterior interventricular branch (left anterior descending) and Circumflex branch

Question 22

Great cardiac vein

Answer 22

Runs with LAD

Question 23

Middle cardiac vein

Answer 23

Runs with the posterior descending branch

Question 24

What three arteries branch off of the aortic arch

Answer 24

Left subclavian artery, left common carotid artery, brachio-cephalic trunk

Question 25

Plasma

Answer 25

Liquid component

Question 26

Formed Elements

Answer 26

Red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets

Question 27

Interventricular septum

Answer 27

Inbetween the left and right ventricle