Heart
8 Questions
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This quiz is to test your knowlege of the human heart. It can also be as review for an exam.
Questions and Answers
- 1.
Name the artery that carries blood from the left ventricle to the body
- A.
Atria
- B.
Pulmonary vein
- C.
Semilunar valve
- D.
Aorta
- E.
None of the above
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D. Aorta -
- 2.
What carries the oxygenated blood from the lungs to the left atrium of the heart?
- A.
Atria
- B.
Semilunar
- C.
Aorta
- D.
Pulmonary veins
- E.
None of the above
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D. Pulmonary veins -
- 3.
What acts as a "check" valve to prevent blood from flowing back into the ventricle
- A.
Atria
- B.
Pulmonary veins
- C.
Atrioventricular
- D.
All of the above
- E.
None of the above
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E. None of the above -
- 4.
Two large veins that drain blood from the upper body and from lower body and empty it into the right atrium of the heart are known as the
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posterior vena cava - 5.
Two of the four chambers with powerful muscular contractions that force blood to flow through arteries to all parts of the body
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Ventricles - 6.
Define anterior vena cava
- 7.
One way valves that prevent blood flow in opposite directions (blood should flow from atria to ventricles)
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Atrioventricular Valve - 8.
Two of four chambers (left and right).Thin walled structures that collect blood from the major veins and empty it into the larger, more muscular ventricles
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Atriums
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