The Heart and Blood Flow

Blood traveling in veins is blue.

• True

• False

Arteries always carry oxygenated blood.

• True

• False

The blood in the vena cava is...

• oxygenated, returning to the heart

• deoxygenated, returning to the heart

• oxygenated, leaving the heart

• deoxygenated, leaving the heart

The valves between the ventricles and the arteries are called:

• Atrioventricular valves.

• Mitral valves.

• Semilunar valves.

• All of them.

The........ has thin muscular wall, very big lumen and valves

• Artery

• Veins

• Capillary

• Trachea

What part of the heart delivers unoxygenated blood to the lungs?

• Pulmonary artery

• Pulmonary Vein

• Aorta

• Left Ventricle

Blood flows in the following sequence in the heart: Superior vena cava/Inferior vena cava, right atrium, tricuspid valve, right ventricle, pulmonic valve, pulmonary artery, lungs, pulmonary vein, left atrium, bicuspid valve, left ventricle, aortic valve, aorta

• True

• False

On the right side of the heart, blood flows from the right ventricle to the?

• Tricuspid valve to the pulmonary vein

• Pulmonic valve to the pulmonary artery

• Tricuspid valve to pulmonary artery

• Inferior vena cava to the aorta

The blood enters on the left side of the heart through the ______________ and enters the left atrium. It then passes through the _____________to enter the left ventricle.*

• pulmonary artery, mitral valve

• pulmonary vein, tricuspid valve

• pulmonary artery, aortic valve

• . pulmonary vein, bicuspid valve

What part of the heart delivers richly oxygenated blood to the body?

• Tricuspid Valve

• Superior Vena Cava

• Aorta

• Pulmonary artery