Unit 2: Metabolic Rate

Question 1

Atrium

Answer 1

Chamber receiving blood entering a vertebrate heart.

Question 2

Complete Double Circulation

Answer 2

Double circulation with complete separation of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood (e.g in birds and mammals).

Question 3

Double Circulation

Answer 3

Blood flows through the heart twice during a full circulation of the body.

Question 4

Incomplete Double Circulation

Answer 4

Double circulation with some mixing of oxygenated and deoxygenated blood (e.g in amphibians and some reptiles).

Question 5

Low-Oxygen Niche

Answer 5

Way of life in a habitat with little oxygen presented such as at high altitude or in a deep ocean.

Question 6

Metabolic Rate

Answer 6

Rate of consumption of energy by an organism.

Question 7

Single Circulatory System

Answer 7

Blood flows through the heart once during a full circulation of the body (e.g in fish).

Question 8

Ventricle

Answer 8

Chamber of a vertebrate heart that distributes blood.

Question 9

Alveoli

Answer 9

Microscopic parts of the gas exchange system in vertebrate lungs.