Post-Lecture Quiz:

Cardiovascular System
Anatomy

1. Chambers of the Heart: Match correct

description and facts to appropriate chamber

 It receives blood from three main vein

Ans: Right Atrium
 From this chamber it wil then pass blood
through the pulmonary valve
Ans: Right Ventricle
 It is the thickest chamber of the heart
Ans: Left Ventricle

2. Areas in the heart and blood flow

 Pulmonary Veins – Oxygen rich blood

 Inferior vena cava – Oxygen poor blood
 Right Ventricle – Oxygen poor blood

3. Valves of the Heart

 Prevents backward flow of blood between

the atria and ventricles – Atrioventricular
valves
 Prevents backward flow of blood between
the blood vessels and the ventricles
 Papillary muscles will pull the chorade
tendinae to keep the valves shut
 Blood filling of the half-moon valve cups thru
backward flow will hold the valves shut