When speaking about the circulatory system, we know that ? View Available Hint(s) oxygenated blood leaves the left ventricle and travels to all parts of the body; it then returns to the heart and enters the right atrium oxygen-depleted blood travels from the individual body cells back to the heart and enters the right atrium from the aorta newly oxygenated blood travels from the right ventricle to the lungs via the pulmonary arteries, and blood from which oxygen has been depleted travels from the lungs to the heart via the pulmonary veins blood travels from the left ventricle to the lungs via the aorta and from the right ventricle to the body via the venae cavae (singular: vena cava) blood becomes oxygenated as it is pumped from the atria to the ventricles. At the same time, the carbon dioxide is unloaded
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In the mammalian circulatory system, what path does deoxygenated blood take when traveling toward the heart? a. It enters the right atrium of the heart via the superior and inferior vena cava. b. It passes through the capillaries to the arterial system, then enters the right ventricle of the heart. c. It travels to the lungs via the pulmonary vein, then enters the left ventricle of the heart via the inferior vena cava. d. It enters the left atrium of the heart via the aorta and is then pumped into the right atrium. e. It enters the right ventricle of the heart via the superior vena cava.
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Place the correct word in each statement and then put the statements in order so that they describe the path of blood through the heart. First, blood enters the right atrium. The superior vena cava and the inferior vena cava, which carry oxygen-poor blood that is relatively low in oxygen, enter the right atrium. The right atrium sends blood through the tricuspid valve to the right ventricle. The right ventricle sends blood through the pulmonary semilunar valve into the pulmonary trunk and through the two pulmonary arteries to the lungs. In the lungs, oxygen is added to the blood and carbon dioxide is removed. Oxygen-rich blood from the lungs enters the left atrium. The left atrium sends blood through the bicuspid (mitral) valve to the left ventricle. The left ventricle sends blood through the aortic semilunar valve into the aorta, which carries the blood to the rest of the body.
The deoxygenated blood enters the heart through the right atrium then goes to the right ventricle. It passes through the pulmonary artery and goes to the lungs where the exchange of gases takes place specifically at the alveoli. It removes the carbon dioxide in the blood and replaces it with oxygen. Then the oxygenated blood passes through the pulmonary vein and enters the heart through the left atrium, then to the left ventricle and to the aorta to all parts of the body.
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