Arteries and Veins
This chamber receives deoxygenated blood from the body through the superior and inferior vena cava.
What is the right atrium?
This is the circuit that carries deoxygenated blood to the lungs and oxygenated blood back to the heart.
What is the pulmonary circuit?
This is the only mammal capable of true flight.
What is a bat?
These arteries carry deoxygenated blood to the lungs.
What are the pulmonary arteries?
This chamber pumps deoxygenated blood into the pulmonary trunk and pulmonary arteries.
What is the right ventricle?
This valve prevents backflow of blood from the right ventricle into the right atrium.
What is the tricuspid valve?
This is the circuit that delivers oxygenated blood to the body and returns deoxygenated blood to the heart.
What is the systemic circuit?
This is the name of the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?
This chamber receives oxygenated blood from the pulmonary veins.
What is the left atrium?
Blood from the left ventricle is pumped into this major artery before branching out to supply oxygen to the body.
What is the aorta?
The chemical symbol for gold.
What is Au?
These vessels always carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
This chamber pumps oxygenated blood into the aorta to supply the body with oxygen.
What is the left ventricle?
This valve is located between the left ventricle and the aorta.
What is the aortic valve?
This is the way in which blood flows through the four compartments of the heart.
What is the right atrium to the right ventricle to the lungs to the left atrium to the left ventricle?
The scientific name for the process by which plants convert sunlight into energy.
What is photosynthesis?
These are the veins that carry blood into the left atrium.
What are the pulmonary veins?
This thick structure separates the right and left ventricles of the heart.
What is the interventricular septum?
This valve is located between the right ventricle and the pulmonary trunk.
What is the pulmonary valve?
The function of these tiny blood vessels is to allow the exchange of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and nutrients between blood and tissues.
What are capillaries?
This is the only letter that does not appear in the name of any U.S. state.
What is Q?