Anatomy Quiz: Free Practice Questions and 3D Anatomy Games

Labelling practice tests recall without the hints a multiple-choice question gives you. Choose a name for each number and press Check, or print the worksheet with its answer key on a separate page. The heart diagram is a frontal section seen from the front, so the heart's right side is on your left.

Human heart18Frog (external)20Frog (internal)34Dog organs21Cat skeleton28Fetal pig22

1. 1.Choose a structure…Aorta (arch)Aortic valveDescending aortaInferior vena cavaInterventricular septumLeft atriumLeft pulmonary arteryLeft pulmonary veinsLeft ventricleMitral (bicuspid) valvePulmonary trunkPulmonary valveRight atriumRight pulmonary arteryRight pulmonary veinsRight ventricleSuperior vena cavaTricuspid valve
2. 2.Choose a structure…Aorta (arch)Aortic valveDescending aortaInferior vena cavaInterventricular septumLeft atriumLeft pulmonary arteryLeft pulmonary veinsLeft ventricleMitral (bicuspid) valvePulmonary trunkPulmonary valveRight atriumRight pulmonary arteryRight pulmonary veinsRight ventricleSuperior vena cavaTricuspid valve
3. 3.Choose a structure…Aorta (arch)Aortic valveDescending aortaInferior vena cavaInterventricular septumLeft atriumLeft pulmonary arteryLeft pulmonary veinsLeft ventricleMitral (bicuspid) valvePulmonary trunkPulmonary valveRight atriumRight pulmonary arteryRight pulmonary veinsRight ventricleSuperior vena cavaTricuspid valve
4. 4.Choose a structure…Aorta (arch)Aortic valveDescending aortaInferior vena cavaInterventricular septumLeft atriumLeft pulmonary arteryLeft pulmonary veinsLeft ventricleMitral (bicuspid) valvePulmonary trunkPulmonary valveRight atriumRight pulmonary arteryRight pulmonary veinsRight ventricleSuperior vena cavaTricuspid valve
5. 5.Choose a structure…Aorta (arch)Aortic valveDescending aortaInferior vena cavaInterventricular septumLeft atriumLeft pulmonary arteryLeft pulmonary veinsLeft ventricleMitral (bicuspid) valvePulmonary trunkPulmonary valveRight atriumRight pulmonary arteryRight pulmonary veinsRight ventricleSuperior vena cavaTricuspid valve
6. 6.Choose a structure…Aorta (arch)Aortic valveDescending aortaInferior vena cavaInterventricular septumLeft atriumLeft pulmonary arteryLeft pulmonary veinsLeft ventricleMitral (bicuspid) valvePulmonary trunkPulmonary valveRight atriumRight pulmonary arteryRight pulmonary veinsRight ventricleSuperior vena cavaTricuspid valve
7. 7.Choose a structure…Aorta (arch)Aortic valveDescending aortaInferior vena cavaInterventricular septumLeft atriumLeft pulmonary arteryLeft pulmonary veinsLeft ventricleMitral (bicuspid) valvePulmonary trunkPulmonary valveRight atriumRight pulmonary arteryRight pulmonary veinsRight ventricleSuperior vena cavaTricuspid valve
8. 8.Choose a structure…Aorta (arch)Aortic valveDescending aortaInferior vena cavaInterventricular septumLeft atriumLeft pulmonary arteryLeft pulmonary veinsLeft ventricleMitral (bicuspid) valvePulmonary trunkPulmonary valveRight atriumRight pulmonary arteryRight pulmonary veinsRight ventricleSuperior vena cavaTricuspid valve
9. 9.Choose a structure…Aorta (arch)Aortic valveDescending aortaInferior vena cavaInterventricular septumLeft atriumLeft pulmonary arteryLeft pulmonary veinsLeft ventricleMitral (bicuspid) valvePulmonary trunkPulmonary valveRight atriumRight pulmonary arteryRight pulmonary veinsRight ventricleSuperior vena cavaTricuspid valve
10. 10.Choose a structure…Aorta (arch)Aortic valveDescending aortaInferior vena cavaInterventricular septumLeft atriumLeft pulmonary arteryLeft pulmonary veinsLeft ventricleMitral (bicuspid) valvePulmonary trunkPulmonary valveRight atriumRight pulmonary arteryRight pulmonary veinsRight ventricleSuperior vena cavaTricuspid valve
11. 11.Choose a structure…Aorta (arch)Aortic valveDescending aortaInferior vena cavaInterventricular septumLeft atriumLeft pulmonary arteryLeft pulmonary veinsLeft ventricleMitral (bicuspid) valvePulmonary trunkPulmonary valveRight atriumRight pulmonary arteryRight pulmonary veinsRight ventricleSuperior vena cavaTricuspid valve
12. 12.Choose a structure…Aorta (arch)Aortic valveDescending aortaInferior vena cavaInterventricular septumLeft atriumLeft pulmonary arteryLeft pulmonary veinsLeft ventricleMitral (bicuspid) valvePulmonary trunkPulmonary valveRight atriumRight pulmonary arteryRight pulmonary veinsRight ventricleSuperior vena cavaTricuspid valve
13. 13.Choose a structure…Aorta (arch)Aortic valveDescending aortaInferior vena cavaInterventricular septumLeft atriumLeft pulmonary arteryLeft pulmonary veinsLeft ventricleMitral (bicuspid) valvePulmonary trunkPulmonary valveRight atriumRight pulmonary arteryRight pulmonary veinsRight ventricleSuperior vena cavaTricuspid valve
14. 14.Choose a structure…Aorta (arch)Aortic valveDescending aortaInferior vena cavaInterventricular septumLeft atriumLeft pulmonary arteryLeft pulmonary veinsLeft ventricleMitral (bicuspid) valvePulmonary trunkPulmonary valveRight atriumRight pulmonary arteryRight pulmonary veinsRight ventricleSuperior vena cavaTricuspid valve
15. 15.Choose a structure…Aorta (arch)Aortic valveDescending aortaInferior vena cavaInterventricular septumLeft atriumLeft pulmonary arteryLeft pulmonary veinsLeft ventricleMitral (bicuspid) valvePulmonary trunkPulmonary valveRight atriumRight pulmonary arteryRight pulmonary veinsRight ventricleSuperior vena cavaTricuspid valve
16. 16.Choose a structure…Aorta (arch)Aortic valveDescending aortaInferior vena cavaInterventricular septumLeft atriumLeft pulmonary arteryLeft pulmonary veinsLeft ventricleMitral (bicuspid) valvePulmonary trunkPulmonary valveRight atriumRight pulmonary arteryRight pulmonary veinsRight ventricleSuperior vena cavaTricuspid valve
17. 17.Choose a structure…Aorta (arch)Aortic valveDescending aortaInferior vena cavaInterventricular septumLeft atriumLeft pulmonary arteryLeft pulmonary veinsLeft ventricleMitral (bicuspid) valvePulmonary trunkPulmonary valveRight atriumRight pulmonary arteryRight pulmonary veinsRight ventricleSuperior vena cavaTricuspid valve
18. 18.Choose a structure…Aorta (arch)Aortic valveDescending aortaInferior vena cavaInterventricular septumLeft atriumLeft pulmonary arteryLeft pulmonary veinsLeft ventricleMitral (bicuspid) valvePulmonary trunkPulmonary valveRight atriumRight pulmonary arteryRight pulmonary veinsRight ventricleSuperior vena cavaTricuspid valve

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The labelled diagram and every structure are explained on blood flow through the heart.

This page holds 100 multiple-choice questions, 6 interactive labelling worksheets and a 3D find-the-structure game on 5 models. Across the site, 68 more quizzes, labelling worksheets and lab question sets with answer keys sit on 58 model and diagram pages, listed below by group.

Topic quizzes on this page

3D find-the-structure quizzes

Each round asks for 10 structures picked at random from those shown when the model opens, so no two games are the same. Play them in the 3D game above.

• Human heart (Human tissues & physiology): 10 of 54 heart structures, from chambers & septa, valves & supports, oxygen-poor vessels, oxygen-rich vessels, coronary vessels, conduction system, fetal remnants. Learn them on the blood flow through the heart page.
• Frog (Reptiles & amphibians): 10 of 113 frog structures, from external, mouth, skeletal, muscular, nervous, digestive, respiratory, circulatory, urogenital. Learn them on the frog anatomy page.
• Dog (Mammals): 10 of 158 dog structures, from external, skeletal, nervous, sense organs, digestive, respiratory, cardiovascular, lymphatic & endocrine, urinary, reproductive. Learn them on the dog anatomy page.
• Cat skeleton (Mammals): 10 of 45 bones of the cat skeleton, from skeletal. Learn them on the cat skeleton page.
• Fetal pig (Mammals): 10 of 114 fetal pig structures, from external, mouth & oral cavity, digestive, respiratory, circulatory (fetal), glands & lymphoid organs, urinary, reproductive, nervous, skeletal, muscular. Learn them on the fetal pig dissection page.

Quizzes, worksheets and lab questions on other pages

Most 3D model pages end with a self-test: a numbered diagram to label, a short quiz, or the questions a dissection lab asks, each with an answer key.

For the human body, each region guide on the 3D human anatomy page has labelled diagrams to cover and recite, and every structure in the model has its own page.

Anatomy is a lot of names, places and relationships, and the methods that make it stick are the ones that make you work: recalling an answer before you see it, coming back to a topic after a gap, and turning diagrams into tests. The quizzes on this page are built around those three ideas.

Yes. Recalling facts from memory, called retrieval practice or self-testing, helps you keep anatomy for longer than reading it again. In a university anatomy and physiology course, students who read a passage, recalled as much as they could and then reread it scored higher a week later than students who read it three times or reread it while taking notes. (Dobson JL, Linderholm T. Self-testing promotes superior retention of anatomy and physiology information. Adv Health Sci Educ. 2015.)

The effect shows up in human anatomy courses too. Future medical and dental students who answered the same nervous system questions three times scored almost 9% higher on the second attempt, half an hour later, with nothing in between but seeing the correct answers. On the third attempt, a week later, they scored 29% higher than on the first. (Logan JM, Thompson AJ, Marshak DW. Testing to enhance retention in human anatomy. Anat Sci Educ. 2011.)

It does not take long. In one anatomy and physiology course, ten very brief retrieval quizzes, about two hours in total over the semester, left students remembering 41% more of the tested material at the end of term than a control group. (Dobson JL. Retrieval practice is an efficient method of enhancing the retention of anatomy and physiology information. Adv Physiol Educ. 2013.)

University learning centres give the same advice: rereading leads to quick forgetting, while quizzing yourself is a highly effective study technique. Use the quiz above before you feel ready; the explanation after each answer turns a wrong guess into a fact you are more likely to remember. (The Learning Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Studying 101: Study Smarter Not Harder.)

Review the same material several times with growing gaps instead of in one long session. LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine suggests reviewing at increasing intervals, such as after 1 day, 3 days and 1 week, studying a little every day (even 20 to 30 minutes), and spiralling back to older material each week rather than cramming. (LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine: How to Study Anatomy in Your First Year of Medical School.)

Spacing and self-testing work best together. Students who learned sets of skeletal muscles in 24 minutes of study spread over three days in a week, with recall built in, scored 33.9 on a free-recall test a week later. Spreading the same time without recall gave 24.7, and doing all the recall in one sitting gave only 12.9. (Dobson JL, Perez J, Linderholm T. Distributed retrieval practice promotes superior recall of anatomy information. Anat Sci Educ. 2017.)

A longer first gap can help. In two physiology courses, students who did their first online homework 5 days after a class did no better on a quiz a week later than those who did it after 1 day, but they scored higher on that topic in the final exam weeks later. (Cadaret CN, Yates DT. Retrieval practice in the form of online homework improved information retention more when spaced 5 days rather than 1 day after class. Adv Physiol Educ. 2018.)

A 2024 systematic review of health professions education found 56 studies with 63 experiments on spacing and retrieval practice; 43 showed a significant benefit for grades over the comparison groups. (Trumble E, Lodge J, Mandrusiak A, Forbes R. Systematic review of distributed practice and retrieval practice in health professions education. Adv Health Sci Educ. 2024.)

Flashcard apps such as Anki automate the schedule. At one medical school, the 78 first-year students who used Anki scored higher on their course exams and on the Comprehensive Basic Science Exam than the 52 who did not, though a cohort study like this shows an association, not proof that the app caused the gain. (Gilbert MM et al. A cohort study assessing the impact of Anki as a spaced repetition tool on academic performance in medical school. Med Sci Educ. 2023.)

Another medical school found daily Anki use linked to higher USMLE Step 1 scores but not Step 2 scores, and concluded that a variety of study methods can reach similar results. (Wothe JK et al. Academic and wellness outcomes associated with use of Anki spaced repetition software in medical school. J Med Educ Curric Dev. 2023.)

Turn every labelled diagram into a test. Cover the labels and name each structure, label blank diagrams repeatedly, sketch structures from memory and explain them out loud as you draw: all four are on LSU Health's list of anatomy study methods. (LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine: How to Study Anatomy in Your First Year of Medical School.)

Drawing has been tested in a randomised study. Of 416 second-year medical students, those asked to draw the anatomical region before or after their dissection session scored significantly higher on memory tests 1 and 7 weeks later than those who did not draw. It did not matter whether they drew before or after. (Alsaid B, Bertrand M. Students' memorization of anatomy, influence of drawing. Morphologie. 2016.)

A blank-page exercise, in which first-year anatomy students drew diagrams or built plasticine models from recall with every cue removed, was designed to make them aware of what they had and had not yet learned. Feedback from 282 students described it as a positive learning experience. (Naug HL, Colson NJ, Donner DG. Promoting metacognition in first year anatomy laboratories using plasticine modeling and drawing activities: the blank page technique. Anat Sci Educ. 2011.)

3D models help most with spatial knowledge: where structures lie in relation to each other. A meta-analysis of 36 studies with 2,226 participants found that 3D visualisation tools improved factual anatomy knowledge slightly (effect size d = 0.30) and spatial knowledge more clearly (d = 0.50) compared with other teaching methods. (Yammine K, Violato C. A meta-analysis of the educational effectiveness of three-dimensional visualization technologies in teaching anatomy. Anat Sci Educ. 2015.)

Games mainly help engagement. In a pilot with 16 second-year medical students playing a team-based anatomy quiz game, 89% found it engaging and 74% wanted to play again, and players said it showed them their strengths and gaps. The study measured engagement, not exam results. (Janssen A et al. A little healthy competition: a team-based digital game for medical student engagement with anatomy and histology. BMC Med Educ. 2015.)

The find-the-structure quiz on this page combines the two: you have to recall where a structure is and find it in 3D, and each answer is highlighted on the model with its description, so a miss becomes a quick lesson.

LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine gives first-year medical students this quick daily structure. The last column shows where to do each step here. (LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine: How to Study Anatomy in Your First Year of Medical School.)