Pulmonary Circulation (FINAL)

Question 1

Answer 1

Pulmonary Circulation

• Pulmonary circulation transports oxygen-poor blood from the right ventricle to the lungs
  
  • Where blood picks up a new blood supply
  • Then it returns the oxygen-rich blood to the left atrium
• Turns deoxygenated blood into oxygenated blood

Question 2

Answer 2

Pulmonary Arteries

• The pulmonary artery and its branches deliver blood rich in carbon dioxide (and lacking in oxygen) to the capillaries that surround the air sacs

Answer 3

Pulmonary Capillaries

• The smallest of the body’s blood vessels.
• Oxygen and glucose pass through capillary walls and enter the cells.
• Waste products such as carbon dioxide pass back from the cells into the blood through capillaries.
• Exchanges CO₂ for O₂