Heart

Question 1

What type of vessel is an aorta and where does it transport blood?

Answer 1

The artery carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body

Question 2

What type of vessel is the vena cava and is the blood oxygenated and where does it transport it?

Answer 2

Vein which Carries the oxygenated blood back from the body to the heart

Question 3

Is the pulmonary artery oxygenated or deoxygenated and where does it transport?

Answer 3

Carries deoxygenated blood from the right ventricle into the lungs

Question 4

Is the pulmonary vein, oxygenated blood and where does it transport blood to?

Answer 4

Carries oxygenated blood from the lungs to the heart

Question 5

What is the tricuspid valve?

Answer 5

Gate that separates right atrium from right ventricle

Question 6

What is the bicuspid valve?

Answer 6

Gate that separates left atrium from left ventricle

Question 7

What are the semilunar valves?

Answer 7

One way gates at the entrance to the aorta and pulmonary artery which prevent the backflow of the blood into the heart