UPDATED Exam Questions and
CORRECT Answers
The apex of the heart is located - CORRECT ANSWER - 5th intercostal space
Which layer of the heart allows it to act as a pump? - CORRECT ANSWER - Myocardium
What is the apex of the heart? - CORRECT ANSWER - The tip of the heart, pointing
down towards the left 5th intercostal space.
Which layer of the heart wall contains the epicardium? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Pericardium
What surrounds the heart? - CORRECT ANSWER - Pericardium
What is related to the mitral valve (tricuspid valve)? - CORRECT ANSWER - Bicuspid
valve
Which of the following contains oxygenated blood? - CORRECT ANSWER - Left
Atrium, Pulmonary veins, Aorta
Which of the following contains deoxygenated blood? - CORRECT ANSWER - Superior
Vena Cava, Right Atrium, Pulmonary Arteries
What supplies oxygenated blood to the heart muscle? - CORRECT ANSWER - Coronary
Arteries
, Which layer of the heart contains actin, myosin, and troponin? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Myocardium
Which valves are open during atrial systole? - CORRECT ANSWER - Tricuspid Mitral
What is true of blood leaving the tissues and traveling towards the right atrium? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Oxygen poor, carbon dioxide rich
Valve that prevents backflow of blood into the left ventricle when the left ventricle is in diastole?
- CORRECT ANSWER - Aortic
The aorta receives blood from what structure? - CORRECT ANSWER - Left ventricle
Which vessel carries blood from the pulmonary capillaries to the left atrium? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Pulmonary veins
Which cavity of the heart first receives unoxygenated blood from the vena cava? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Right atrium
What is the right semilunar valve separating the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery? -
CORRECT ANSWER - The pulmonic valve
What is the function of the pulmonic valve? - CORRECT ANSWER - To prevent blood
flow from the pulmonary arteries to the right ventricle during ventricular diastole
What do heart rate and stroke volume determine? - CORRECT ANSWER - Cardiac output
What is the left ventricle doing when the right ventricle is contracting? - CORRECT
ANSWER - Pumping blood into the great vessels