ACTIVITY 12:

CARDIOVASCULAR
SYSTEM
Post-Lab Discussion
 Atrioventricular valve

Semilunar valve
Arterial
System
Venous
System
 ANSWERS TO
GUIDE QUESTIONS:
1. Why is the ventricle more
muscular than the atria?

 …because the ventricle needs to

create enough pressure to keep the
blood circulating throughout the
body.
2. What valve prevents the
backflow of blood from conus
arteriosus to the ventricle?

 The semilunar valve

3. How does the blood in the
pulmonary vein differ from that
in the other veins?

 It is oxygenated blood.
4. Name the three veins that
empty blood into the sinus
venosus.

 Left precava / left anterior vena

cava
 Right precava / right anterior vena
cava
 Postcava / posterior vena cava
 Trace the blood from the
femoral veins of the leg to the
kidney.

Femoral vein Renal portal vein

 Trace the blood from the
femoral veins of the leg to the
liver.
Femoral vein Pelvic vein

Anterior abdominal
vein

Anterior abdominal
vein

Hepatic Vein /
Hepatic Portal Vein
6. What visceral organ system
uses the portal system
extensively?

 Urinary

 Liver/ Digestive
7. Trace the shortest route a
blood corpuscle could take in
traveling from the systemic
arch to the intestine to the
right atrium.
Dorsal Anterior
Systemic Intestina
arch Aorta Mesenteric l
artery artery

Intestinal Intestinal Hepatic postcava

capillaries veins Portal
vein
Sinus
Right venosus
atrium
8. How does the blood in the
pulmocutaneous arch differ from
that in the higher two arches?

 It contains deoxygenated blood.

Do you have biology in your blood?