This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Circulatory System โ Quiz 101 ๐ Homepage ๐ Download PDF Books ๐ Premium PDF Books Circulatory System Quiz 101 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How many chambers does each pump of the heart have? A) Two. B) Three. C) One. D) Four. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Two. 2. Which particles move the FASTEST and have more thermal energy? A) Hot Particles. B) Cold Particles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hot Particles. 3. Which is the correct statement about plasma? A) The liquid portion of blood. B) It fights against disease. C) It contains haemoglobin. D) It helps the blood to clot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The liquid portion of blood. 4. How are veins different from arteries in terms of pressure? A) Veins have higher pressure. B) Arteries have lower pressure. C) Both have the same pressure. D) Veins have lower pressure. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Veins have lower pressure. 5. An electrocardiogram measures what? A) The body's temperature caused by friction of blood in vessel. B) How many times the heart contracts over time. C) The electrical activity of the heart. D) The amount of pressure exerted on blood vessels. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The electrical activity of the heart. 6. Can someone with type O blood accept type A blood? A) Yes they can. B) No they cannot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No they cannot. 7. What happens if veins have no valves? What happens if there are no valves in the veins? A) Blood flows continuously. B) Blood flows slowly. C) Blood flows backwards. D) All the above. เฐชเฑเฐตเฐจเฑเฐจเฑ. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blood flows backwards. 8. The fluid that surrounds the heart and prevents friction when it beats is A) Platelets. B) Water. C) Serous fluid. D) Cerebrospinal fluid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Serous fluid. 9. With circulation the heart provides you with A) Oxygen. B) Nutrients. C) A way to get rid of waste. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 10. Which of the following structures must be stimulated to increase heart rate? A) Sino-atrial node. B) Atrio-ventricular node. C) Cardiac muscle. D) Vena cava. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sino-atrial node. 11. The most muscular chamber of the heart is the A) Right ventricle. B) Left ventricle. C) Left atrium. D) Right atrium. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Left ventricle. 12. When I check my pulse for 30 seconds, what should I do to that number to figure out my heart rate? A) Double it. B) Nothing. C) Triple it. D) Multiply by 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Double it. 13. There is a very special gas exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen that occurs i the body. This occurs in the: A) Veins. B) Arteries. C) Valves. D) Capillaries. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Capillaries. 14. The right atrium receives blood directly from A) The superior and inferior vena cava only. B) The superior and inferior vena cava and coronary sinus. C) The superior vena and inferior vena cava and pulmonary veins. D) The pulmonary veins. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The superior and inferior vena cava and coronary sinus. 15. What stores bile? A) Colon. B) Gall Bladder. C) Small Intestine. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gall Bladder. 16. What part of the heart collects the blood returning from the rest of the body? A) Left ventricle. B) Left atrium. C) Right ventricle. D) Right atrium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Right atrium. 17. Capillaries are called ..... vessels because this is where oxygen and carbon dioxide are transferred into tissues. A) Altering. B) Export. C) Exchange. D) Performance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exchange. 18. It lets blood be pumped from the heart to the rest of the body. A) Aortic valve. B) Tricuspid valve. C) Pulmonary valve. D) Bicuspid valve. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aortic valve. 19. Which is the first heart chamber to receive deoxygenated blood? A) Left atrium. B) They keep the blood flowing one way. They stop blood flowing back into the chamber that they left. C) Right atrium. D) No pulmonary arter carries oxygen poor blood to the lungs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Right atrium. 20. The largest artery that distributes blood to the different parts of the body A) Inferior Vena Cava. B) Superior Vena Cava. C) Aorta. D) Mitral Valve. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aorta. 21. Which component makes up the most of your blood? A) Platelets. B) Plasma. C) White blood cells. D) Red blood cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plasma. 22. They are pumping chambers. They cause the blood to move around the body. A) Left and Right Atria. B) Left Ventricles. C) Right Ventricles. D) Left and Right Ventricles. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Left and Right Ventricles. 23. What does plasma contain? A) Separates oxygen rich from oxygen poor blood. B) Carries the blood back into the heart. C) Oxygen, nutrients, and wastes. D) It contains dissolved nutrients and waste products. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It contains dissolved nutrients and waste products. 24. This is the circulating fluid that supplies the needed materials ( such as oxygen and digested food nutrients ) to all body cells and collects waste materials ( such as carbon dioxide and metabolic waste products ) from them A) Water. B) Blood. C) Saliva. D) Plasma. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blood. 25. ..... fight infection. They surround and absorb germs which enter the body. A) Veins. B) Arteries. C) White Blood Cells. D) Red Blood Cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) White Blood Cells. 26. Occurs when a clot occurs in the vein of an extremity A) Hemophilia. B) CAD. C) Deep Vein Thrombosis. D) Myocardial Infarction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deep Vein Thrombosis. 27. Which substances are produced during respiration? A) Carbon dioxide and red blood cells. B) Water and oxygen. C) Carbon dioxide and water. D) Oxygen and red blood cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carbon dioxide and water. 28. Superior vena cava-right atrium-Tricuspid valve-right ventricle-Pulmonary valve-pulmonary artery-lungs-Pulmonary veins-left atrium-mitral valve-left ventricle-?-rest of body A) AORTIC VEINS. B) AORTA. C) AORTIC VALVE. D) REST OF BODY. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) AORTA. 29. Which of the following has these characteristics:-biconcave shape-no nucleus when mature A) Plasma. B) Platelets. C) Erythrocytes. D) Leucocytes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Erythrocytes. 30. Blood travels throughout the body and picks up oxygen from the which of the following organs? A) Lungs. B) Heart. C) Kidneys. D) Protists. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lungs. 31. Blood vessels that connect arteries and veins. A) Veins. B) Capillaries. C) Arteries. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Capillaries. 32. After the blood reaches the head, it goes to the ..... A) Aorta. B) Abdomen. C) Arms. D) Legs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arms. 33. ..... a network of tubes with a very thin walls between each artery and vein to let substances move in and out of your blood. A) Xylem. B) Phloem. C) Capillaries. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Capillaries. 34. Organ system that transports needed substancesthroughout the body and carries away wastes A) Respiratory system. B) Circulatory system. C) Muscular system. D) Digestive system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Circulatory system. 35. Where dose blood from the right ventricle go? A) Lungs. B) To other cells. C) Heart. D) Rest of the body. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lungs. 36. Veins take blood to the heart. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 37. What allows the blood to clot using fibers? A) Leukocytes. B) Erythrocytes. C) Plasma. D) Thrombocytes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thrombocytes. 38. What kind of blood collects in the right atrium A) Blue. B) Normal. C) Oxygenated. D) Deoxygenated. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Deoxygenated. 39. There is a ..... between atrium and ventricle on each side of the heart. A) Muscular wall. B) Vein. C) Valve. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Valve. 40. Needed substances are carried to all parts of the body by ..... A) Arteries. B) Lungs. C) Capillaries. D) Blood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blood. 41. What are the 5 classes of vertebrates? A) 4 legged, 2 legged, Fish, Birds, Insects. B) Birds, Dogs, Cats, Fish, Insects. C) Reptiles, Arthropods, Arachnids, Insects, Mammals. D) Reptiles, Amphibians, Birds, Fish, Mammals. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reptiles, Amphibians, Birds, Fish, Mammals. 42. People will always have a fixed (the same) number of erythrocytes, regardless of where they live. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 43. What job do the veins do? A) Exchange water, oxygen and nutrients. B) Carry oxygenated blood away from the heart. C) Carry deoxygenated blood towards the heart. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carry deoxygenated blood towards the heart. 44. The heart chamber that receives blood from the lungs A) Right Atriua. B) Left ventricle. C) Right ventricle. D) Left atrium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Left atrium. 45. You have a cut on your leg. The area is swollen, red, and warm to the touch. The injury resulted in which development? A) Phagocytosis. B) Hemolysis. C) Inflammation. D) Agglutination. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inflammation. 46. The exchange of gasses and nutrients occurs in ..... A) Veins. B) Blood capillaries. C) Arteries. D) Heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blood capillaries. 47. Which material is a major waste product and is taken FROM the cells back to the HEART? A) Oxygen. B) Blood. C) Carbon dioxide. D) Nutrients. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carbon dioxide. 48. These are surface proteins located on Erythrocytes: A) Antibodies. B) Anti-A and Anti-B. C) Agglutinins. D) Agglutinogens. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Agglutinogens. 49. Blood that is bright red is oxygen ..... ? A) Deficient. B) Rich. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rich. 50. The circulatory system transports blood and other substance in the body A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 51. When you run your circulation changes to match each tissue's need. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 52. What type of blood vessel area will the pulse be measured for? A) Wen. B) Artery. C) Fuzz. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Artery. 53. Which of the following is NOT one of the signs of inflammation? A) Redness (erythema). B) Heat. C) Bleeding. D) Pain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bleeding. 54. Veins bring blood to heart..... A) Superior vena cava. Urdhva Brihat Shira. B) Inferior vena cava is the inferior vena cava. C) Both. D) Pulmonary vein. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 55. Abigail and William are learning about the respiratory system. They want to know what gives red blood cells their ability to pick up oxygen. Can you help them? A) Antibodies. B) Hemoglobin. C) Enzymes. D) Hormones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hemoglobin. 56. ..... carry oxygen from lungs to different parts of the body. A) Platelets. B) Red blood cells. C) White blood cells. D) Plasma. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Red blood cells. 57. Carries blood to most of the small intestine and to the first half of the large intestine- A) Superior mesenteric artery. B) Inferior vena cava. C) Inferior mesenteric artery. D) Superior vena cava. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Superior mesenteric artery. 58. Do veins contain oxygen? A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No. 59. The function of the heart valves is to ..... A) Receive blood from the ventricles. B) Prevent the blood from flowing back. C) Separate the two sides of the heart. D) Pump blood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prevent the blood from flowing back. 60. Arteries carry blood away from the heart to the rest of the body. Veins push blood back to your heart. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. โ PreviousNext โRelated QuizzesScience QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesCirculatory System Quiz 1Circulatory System Quiz 2Circulatory System Quiz 3Circulatory System Quiz 4Circulatory System Quiz 5Circulatory System Quiz 6Circulatory System Quiz 7Circulatory System Quiz 8 ๐ Back to Homepage ๐ Download PDF Books ๐ Premium PDF Books