Circulatory System Quiz 163 (60 MCQs)

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1. Is to carry impulses between the body and the central system, causing the voluntary (or chosen) and involuntary (or automatic) reactions you experience
2. The human body has specialized cells, such as white blood cells, to help protect it from many diseases. Describe what these specialized cells do to protect the body from the disease.
3. The human circulatory system has two loops. Which loop takes blood from the heart to the lungs and back?
4. What's the name of the circuit that transports oxygenated blood?
5. In what form is most carbon dioxide transported by the blood?
6. Which chamber of the heart pumps deoxygenated blood to the lungs?
7. Blood clotting is a mechanism that heals wounds, prevents blood loss and subsequently maintains the blood pressure.
8. This part of the heart separates the left and right heart chambers.
9. The circulatory system is composed of blood vessels that travel from the heart to the rest of the body and back to the heart. Why does blood make a complete loop throughout the body?
10. Plasma contains ..... percent water and ..... percent nutrients, proteins and waste products
11. Your heart pumps blood around your body for 22 hours a day
12. What substance do living things need to stay healthy?
13. Which carries oxygen-poor blood back to the heart?
14. Which of the following helps in maximum transport of oxygen?
15. Which chamber of the heart has the thickest wall?
16. What is the name of the tiny blood vessels that connect the arteries and the veins?
17. The heart is about the size of your fist.
18. Which word is not used in the Flora and Fauna article in the blood movie
19. I am just a cell fragment (or piece) used to attach to protein in the skin
20. What blood vessel is the site of oxygen, carbon dioxide and nutrient exchange?
21. Which of these is NOT a way we orient the heart in the dissection lab?
22. Surges of blood through the arteries in those areas that you can feel on your wrist or on the side of your neck
23. When a valve or aorta is narrowed, limiting blood flow
24. John has type A blood. John is going to have surgery and doctors need blood donated just i case something goes wrong, however, there is a shortage of blood donations. Can his sister with type O be a donor?
25. These carry blood to the heart:
26. The tiny, thin, hair like tubes in the lungs are
27. What is the muscular wall that separates the right side of the heart from the left side of the heart?
28. Which organ is the central pump of the circulatory system?
29. The chamber found in the top section of the heart is called the .....
30. Stress increases the risk of heart disease by
31. What part of the blood helps us to fight disease?
32. The purkinjie fibers provide electrical stimulation for:
33. (Page 19) True or False, capillary walls are huge!
34. The right ventricle pumps oxygen-poor blood to the .....
35. Tubes that transport blood.
36. Whic if the following are characteristics of an artery?1. Carries blood from the heart 2. Carries blood to the heart3. Has valves 4. Has no valves5. Has a pulse 6. Has no pulse
37. What reading goes on the top when recording blood pressure?
38. This layer of heart tissue consists of cardiac muscle tissue:
39. Blood goes from the Left Atrium to the
40. The human heart pumps five liters of blood per minute
41. Height and weight of heart is
42. Who carries blood to the lungs?
43. True or False:The mitral and bicuspid valve is the same thing.
44. Which organ that causing the sound of a heartbeat?
45. What is the protein in red blood cells that allows them to carry oxygen?
46. A heart can live outside of the body.
47. The liquid portion of blood that comprises 55% of the blood's volume is called:
48. If a person with Type AB blood were to get a transfusion, what types of blood could they RECEIVE?
49. ..... carry blood to the heart under ..... pressure with many valves to keep blood flowing in .....
50. Which component of the circulatory system pumps the blood?
51. Which part of the heart pumps the oxygen-riched blood to all parts of the body?
52. In this type of system blood passes through the heart twice in one complete circuit.
53. Which blood vessel has low pressure?
54. After blood leaves the capillary beds surrounding the air sacs in the lungs, it is then:
55. The walls of an artery are thicker and more elastic than the walls of a vein.Why is it important for the walls of an artery to be thicker and more elastic?
56. Find the correct statement about blood clotting
57. These arteries get smaller and smaller arteries until they enter the smallest of vessels, ..... This is where the exchange of gases, nutrients, and wastes occurs.
58. The 2 upper chambers of the heart are the ....., which receive blood entering the heart.
59. The normal human pulse rate is
60. Which WBC has a large, kidney-shaped nucleus?