Cardiovascular System

Question 1

State what is the pulmonary circuit

Answer 1

carries deoxygenated blood away from the right ventricle, to the lungs, and returns oxygenated blood to the left atrium and ventricle of the heart.

Question 2

State what is the systemic circuit?

Answer 2

carries oxygenated blood from the left ventricle, through the arteries, to the capillaries in the tissues of the body. From the tissue capillaries, the deoxygenated blood returns through a system of veins to the right atrium of the heart.

Question 3

Name the structure that separates the left and right ventricles?

Answer 3

septum

Question 4

State what the arteries that provide the heart with blood called

Answer 4

Coronary arteries

Question 5

State what is the role of heart valves

Answer 5

The valves prevent the backward flow of blood.

Question 6

Through what vessel does deoxygenated blood enter the heart?

Answer 6

superior vena cava and inferior vena cava