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WorksheetsCardiovascular System Quiz Review
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 16mins
Prevents blood from flowing back into the atria when the ventricles contract.
Tricuspid and bicuspid valves
Pulmonary trunk
SA node
Semilunar valves
When blood leaves this chamber of the heart, it heads out to the body.
Left ventricle
Right ventricle
Left atrium
Right atrium
One of the body's largest blood vessels that transports blood from the body region below the diaphragm to the heart.
Inferior vena cava
Aorta
Pulmonary trunk
SA node
When this chamber contracts it pushes blood through the tricuspid valve.
Right atrium
Left atrium
Right ventricle
Left ventricle
Initiates the action potential that causes the heart to beat.
SA node
AV node
Semilunar valves
Pulmonary trunk
When blood leaves this chamber of the heart, it heads to the lungs.
Right ventricle
Left ventricle
Right atrium
Left atrium
Stops blood from flowing back into the ventricles each time they contract.
Semilunar valves
Tricuspid and bicuspid valves
AV node
SA node
Responsible for distributing electrical impulses throughout the heart.
AV node
SA node
Aorta
Pulmonary trunk
This blood vessel splits in two and sends oxygen-poor blood to the lungs.
Pulmonary trunk
Pulmonary veins
Aorta
Inferior vena cava
The chamber in the heart that receives oxygenated blood from the lungs.
Left atrium
Right atrium
Left ventricle
Right ventricle
(a) are the smallest blood vessels with the thinnest walls in order to maximize diffusion of nutrients in and out of the interstitial fluid.
Veins carry blood towards the heart and (a) carry blood away from the heart.
Blood traveling in the pulmonary circuit goes through the (a) side of the heart and out to the lungs.
Blood traveling in the systemic circuit goes through the (a) side of the heart and out to the body.
Be able to answer the following question:
Describe the unique property of pacemaker cells and what they make possible in the heart.
Be able to answer the following question:
Why is coronary circulation an essential process?
Be able to label the following chambers of the heart on the attached image. Check off each chamber when you are sure of where its label should go.
Right atrium
Right ventricle
Left atrium
Left ventricle
