A&P 2 Straighterline Course Exam Questions with Correct Answers
(Grade A+)
Question 1: Parasympathetic nervous system primary neurotransmitter?
Answer: acetylcholine
Question 2: Parasympathetic nervous system system classification?
Answer: cholinergic system
Question 3: Parasympathetic nervous system effects?
Answer: pupil constriction, decreased heart rate, promotion of
recovery and digestion
Question 4: What brings information IN to CNS?
Answer: sensory (afferent) pathways
Question 5: What sends information OUT from CNS?
Answer: motor (efferent) pathways
Question 6: Where is the heart located?
Answer: rests on the diaphragm near the midline of the thoracic
cavity
Question 7: How is the heart positioned?
Answer: 2/3rd lies to the left of the midline, sits in thoracic cavity,
slightly rotated to the left and pointed to the left side of the body
Question 8: What are the 4 main borders of the heart?
Answer: right, left, inferior, superior
Question 9: How is the right border of the heart formed?
Answer: right atrium
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, Question 10: How is the left (obtuse) border of the heart formed?
Answer: left ventricle and auricle
Question 11: How is the inferior (acute) border of the heart formed?
Answer: right ventricle, and part of left ventricle at the apex
Question 12: How is the superior border of the heart formed?
Answer: both atria and the great vessels
Question 13: What are teh heart surfaces?
Answer: base and apex
Question 14: Base of the heart location?
Answer: superior portion of the heart (superior and medial)
Question 15: How is the base of the heart formed?
Answer: mostly by the left atrium, small portion of the right atrium
Question 16: What does the base of the heart consist of?
Answer: 4 pulmonary veins, 2 pulmonary arteries
Question 17: Apex of the heart location?
Answer: inferior portion of the heart (inferior and lateral)
Question 18: How is the apex formed?
Answer: inferolateral part of the left ventricle
Question 19: Where does the apex lie?
Answer: posterior to left 5th intercostal space in adults
Question 20: What are the 5 heart surfaces?
Answer: anterior (sternocostal), posterior, inferior (diaphragmatic),
right pulmonary surface, and left pulmonary surface
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(Grade A+)
Question 1: Parasympathetic nervous system primary neurotransmitter?
Answer: acetylcholine
Question 2: Parasympathetic nervous system system classification?
Answer: cholinergic system
Question 3: Parasympathetic nervous system effects?
Answer: pupil constriction, decreased heart rate, promotion of
recovery and digestion
Question 4: What brings information IN to CNS?
Answer: sensory (afferent) pathways
Question 5: What sends information OUT from CNS?
Answer: motor (efferent) pathways
Question 6: Where is the heart located?
Answer: rests on the diaphragm near the midline of the thoracic
cavity
Question 7: How is the heart positioned?
Answer: 2/3rd lies to the left of the midline, sits in thoracic cavity,
slightly rotated to the left and pointed to the left side of the body
Question 8: What are the 4 main borders of the heart?
Answer: right, left, inferior, superior
Question 9: How is the right border of the heart formed?
Answer: right atrium
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, Question 10: How is the left (obtuse) border of the heart formed?
Answer: left ventricle and auricle
Question 11: How is the inferior (acute) border of the heart formed?
Answer: right ventricle, and part of left ventricle at the apex
Question 12: How is the superior border of the heart formed?
Answer: both atria and the great vessels
Question 13: What are teh heart surfaces?
Answer: base and apex
Question 14: Base of the heart location?
Answer: superior portion of the heart (superior and medial)
Question 15: How is the base of the heart formed?
Answer: mostly by the left atrium, small portion of the right atrium
Question 16: What does the base of the heart consist of?
Answer: 4 pulmonary veins, 2 pulmonary arteries
Question 17: Apex of the heart location?
Answer: inferior portion of the heart (inferior and lateral)
Question 18: How is the apex formed?
Answer: inferolateral part of the left ventricle
Question 19: Where does the apex lie?
Answer: posterior to left 5th intercostal space in adults
Question 20: What are the 5 heart surfaces?
Answer: anterior (sternocostal), posterior, inferior (diaphragmatic),
right pulmonary surface, and left pulmonary surface
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