The cardiovascular system

Question 1

What is the cardiovascular system?

Answer 1

How the cardiovascular system work together to pump blood from the heart to the lungs to then supply the body with oxygen.

Question 2

Step by step of the heart chambers, veins and arteries? (starting with lungs)

Answer 2

Lungs
Pulmonary Vein
Left atrium
Left ventricle
aorta
body
vena cava
right atrium
right ventricle
pulmonary artery
lungs

Question 3

What does the vena cava do?

Answer 3

This returns deoxygenated blood back to the right atrium.

Question 4

What does the pulmonary vein do?

Answer 4

Delivers oxygenated blood to the left atrium

Question 5

What does the pulmonary artery do?

Answer 5

This leaves the right ventricle with deoxygenated blood to go to the lungs.

Question 6

What does the aorta do?

Answer 6

This leaves the left ventricle with oxygenated blood leaving to the body.

Question 7

What do the valves of the heart do?

Answer 7

They open to allow blood to pass through and then close to prevent back flow.

Question 8

Where is the tricuspid value located?

Answer 8

Between the right atrium and right ventricle.

Question 9

Where is the bicuspid value located?

Answer 9

Between the left atrium and left ventricle