This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Circulatory System – Quiz 172 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Circulatory System Quiz 172 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What muscle separates the thorax from the abdomen during breathing? A) Pectoral muscles. B) Intercostal muscles. C) Diaphragm. D) Abdominal muscles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Diaphragm. 2. Which artery supplies blood to the right atrium and right ventricle of the heart? A) Left coronary artery. B) Right coronary artery. C) Anterior interventricular artery. D) Circumflex artery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Right coronary artery. 3. What is considered by doctors to be the "anatomical pacemaker" of the heart? A) Purkinje Fibers. B) Bundle branches. C) AV node. D) Bundle of His. E) Because of the difference. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Because of the difference. 4. Subdivision of the PNS that controls involuntary activities, such as regulating cardiac and smooth muscle glands. A) PNS. B) Somatic Nervous System. C) Autonomic Nervous System. D) CNS. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Autonomic Nervous System. 5. Arteries, veins, and capillaries are three types of ..... A) Street. B) Cells. C) Heart. D) Blood vessels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blood vessels. 6. What tube connects the mouth to the stomach A) Trachea. B) Oesophagus. C) Small intestine. D) Large intestine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oesophagus. 7. Right upper chamber of the heart. A) Right Ventricles. B) Left Ventricles. C) Left Atrium. D) Right Atrium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Right Atrium. 8. Which is a cardiovascular muscle? A) Lung. B) Heart. C) Stomach. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Heart. 9. What type of blood vessel has blood that is blueish in color? A) Esophagus. B) Artery. C) Vein. D) Small intestine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vein. 10. Supplies blood to the liver- A) Hepatic artery. B) Renal artery. C) Splenic artery. D) Tibial arteries. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hepatic artery. 11. What is the name for high blood pressure? A) Aneurysm. B) Hypertension. C) Pericarditis. D) Myocardial infarction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hypertension. 12. True or False:The lymph nodes produce white blood cells A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 13. Right atrium function: A) Receives blood from left atrium; pumps into aorta. B) Receives blood from right atrium; pumps into pulmonary artery. C) Receives blood from body cells. D) Receives oxygenated blood from lungs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Receives blood from body cells. 14. The ..... blood returns to the heart through the ..... A) Oxygenated, pulmonary artery. B) Oxygenated, pulmonary veins. C) Pulmonary veins, oxygenated. D) Deoxygenated, pulmonary artery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxygenated, pulmonary veins. 15. This is a genetic condition where plasma lacks a clotting factor. A) Lymphocytes. B) Hemophilia. C) Spleen. D) Tonsils. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hemophilia. 16. ..... typically carry blood away from the heart. A) Veins. B) Ventricles. C) Arteries. D) Valves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arteries. 17. What is label "8" ? A) Left atrium. B) Right atrium. C) Left ventricle. D) Aorta. E) Inferior vena cava. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Inferior vena cava. 18. What blood type is the "universal donor" because it can be donated to anyone? A) AB. B) B. C) A. D) O. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) O. 19. What important function is happening in the capillaries of the systemic pathway? A) Co2 is entering cells. Oxygen is leaving cells. B) CO2 is entering blood. Oxygen is entering alveoli. C) Oxygen is entering cells. CO2 is leaving cells. D) Oxygen is entering blood. CO2 is entering alveoli. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxygen is entering cells. CO2 is leaving cells. 20. What is the heart's pacemaker? A) AV bundle. B) Atrioventricular node. C) Purkinje fibers. D) Sinoatrial node. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sinoatrial node. 21. Plasma is made up of ..... A) Carbohydrates, Water, Organic Molecules, Proteins, and Gases. B) Water, Ions, Organic Molecules, Vitamins, and Gases. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Water, Ions, Organic Molecules, Vitamins, and Gases. 22. In which digestive organ are villi found? A) Pancreas. B) Stomach. C) Large intestine. D) Small intestine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Small intestine. 23. The heart is medial to the lungs and ..... to the diaphragm. * A) Anterior. B) Superior. C) Posterior. D) Inferior. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Superior. 24. Thanks to your nervous system, breathing is an ..... action. A) Involuntary. B) Voluntary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Involuntary. 25. How are single-celled organisms and multi-celled organisms similar? A) Both need food for energy and growth. B) Both have a skeletal system for support. C) Both require the interaction of many cells to survive. D) Both are able to carry out all life functions in only one cell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Both need food for energy and growth. 26. What do muscles do for your body? A) Muscles help you think clearer. B) Muscles make you look good. C) Muscles move your body. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Muscles move your body. 27. Drop off oxygen & nutrients and pick up carbon dioxide & waste products A) ARTERIES. B) VEINS. C) CAPILLARIES. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) CAPILLARIES. 28. Disease related with the malfunction of valves A) Leukemia. B) Cardiac Arrest. C) Anemia. D) Varicose Veins. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Varicose Veins. 29. What important activity takes place in the lungs? A) Oxygen (O2) is exchanged for Carbon Dioxide (CO2). B) Food is digested. C) Waste filtered from blood. D) Trachea is exchanged for the larynx. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oxygen (O2) is exchanged for Carbon Dioxide (CO2). 30. Chamber of the heart that is responsible for pumping oxygenated blood to tissues all over the body. A) Right Atrium. B) Right Ventricle. C) Left Atrium. D) Left Ventricle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Left Ventricle. 31. Mechanically widening a narrow or obstructed blood vessel is called: A) Cardiology. B) Angioplasty. C) Circulation. D) Diabetes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Angioplasty. 32. The velocity of blood flow is lowest in the capillaries which allow exchange to occur because ..... A) The capillary walls are not thin enough to allow oxygen to diffuse. B) The capillaries are the furthest vessel from the heart. C) The total cross sectional area of the capillaries is largest of all other vessels. D) Blood pressure is too high to deliver blood to the capillaries at a fast rate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The total cross sectional area of the capillaries is largest of all other vessels. 33. Blood pressure is used to determine A) Function of coronary artery. B) If adequate blood is getting to tissues. C) Electrical current though the heart. D) Speed of blood through veins. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) If adequate blood is getting to tissues. 34. What type of blood cells does erythrocytes have and where does it produced? A) White blood cells and produced in white bone marrow. B) White blood cells and produced in red bone marrow. C) Red blood cells and produced in white bone marrow. D) Red blood cells and produced in red bone marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Red blood cells and produced in red bone marrow. 35. Is blood flowing the lungs into the heart rich or poor in oxygen? A) Poor-oxygen. B) Rich-oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rich-oxygen. 36. What will happen if cilia do not function properly? A) The filtration of the entrance of dirt and germs from the body will not be conducted. B) The dissolution of non-essential materials will not be done. C) The entrance and exit of air in and out of the respiratory system will not be highly regulated. D) The exchnage of gases inside the alveoli will be improperly functioned. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The filtration of the entrance of dirt and germs from the body will not be conducted. 37. Which of the following statements about the circulatory system is false? A) Blood in the pulmonary artery is oxygenated. B) Blood in the pulmonary artery is oxygenated. C) Blood in the pulmonary vein is oxygenated. D) Blood in the aorta is oxygenated. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blood in the pulmonary vein is oxygenated. 38. This blood types is the universal recipient, meaning they can receive blood to any blood type. A) A. B) O. C) B. D) AB. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) AB. 39. What is the function of the aortic valve? A) Carrying oxygen-poor blood to the lungs. B) Preventing blood from flowing backward into the atria. C) Forcing oxygen-rich blood into the aorta. D) Forcing oxygen-rich blood away from the heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Forcing oxygen-rich blood into the aorta. 40. What blood vessels link the smallest arteries with the smallest veins? A) Arterioles. B) Venules. C) Mini-vessels. D) Capillaries. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Capillaries. 41. What is something that prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells have in common? A) They have DNA. B) They have a nucleus. C) They are multi-cellular. D) They have organelles that are membrane-bound. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They have DNA. 42. What special blood vessels are in the lungs? A) Arteries. B) Veins. C) Capillaries. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Capillaries. 43. What "happens" in the lymph nodes? A) Excess glucose in the lymph is stored in the liver. B) Carbon dioxide is removed from the lymph and passed to the lungs for exhalation. C) Lymph is oxgenated and pumped through the body. D) Lymph is cleaned of foreign antigens and debris. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lymph is cleaned of foreign antigens and debris. 44. The ..... transports blood from the right ventricle to the lungs A) Hollow veins. B) Aorta. C) Pulmonary vein. D) Pulmonary artery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pulmonary artery. 45. What helps to keep blood flowing onwards away from the heart in an artery? A) Valves. B) Contraction of skeletal muscles. C) Elastic fibres. D) Having a wide lumen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elastic fibres. 46. Our heart never stops beating. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 47. The client has hypertension that means the their blood pressure is A) Low. B) Normal. C) High. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) High. 48. In which part of the lung does gas exchange occur? A) Bronchiole. B) Alveoli. C) Trachea. D) Bronchus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alveoli. 49. Lymph is modified blood that contains ..... A) (a) RBC and WBC. B) B) RBC, WBC and protein. C) (c)WBC and all protein. D) (d) All contents of blood except RBC and certain proteins. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) (d) All contents of blood except RBC and certain proteins. 50. The end of a capillary close to a vein is called the A) Venule. B) Vena cava. C) Arteriole. D) Vein. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Venule. 51. Extends between the ribs, sending branches to the muscles and other structures of the chest wall- A) Common iliac arteries. B) Intercostal arteries. C) Inferior vena cava. D) Inferior mesenteric arteries. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Intercostal arteries. 52. The division of the trachea forms A) Main bronchi. B) Nose. C) Alveoli. D) Lungs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Main bronchi. 53. A ..... occurs when you have the narrowing of arteries due to the buildup of fatty deposits A) Heart Failure. B) Myocardial Infarction. C) Stroke. D) High Cholesterol. E) Angina Pectoris. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Angina Pectoris. 54. Pulmonary vein:to A) Right atrium. B) Heart. C) Heart muscles. D) Lungs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Heart. 55. Main parts include:mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestines, large intestines A) Digestive system. B) Nervous system. C) Circulatory/cardiovascular system. D) Respiratory system. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Digestive system. 56. Which of the following best describes white blood cells? A) Cells that help blood to clot & help form a scab over a cut. B) A yellow liquid that carries cells, carbon dioxide & soluble food molecules. C) Cells that fight disease by ingesting pathogens & making antibodies. D) Cells packed with haemoglobin that carries oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cells that fight disease by ingesting pathogens & making antibodies. 57. After the nose, air passes into the A) Pharynx. B) Bronchi. C) Bronchioles. D) Larynx. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pharynx. 58. True or false:red blood cells carry a protein called hemoglobin? A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 59. How digestive system is linked to the circulatory system? A) Organs of the digestive system turn ingested food into products that can be absorbed by the blood. B) Digestive system distributes nutrients directly to the different parts of the body. C) Intestines digest food with the command of the brain. D) Food can't be digested without the blood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Organs of the digestive system turn ingested food into products that can be absorbed by the blood. 60. Which of the following lists the valves in the order through which the blood flows from the vena cava through the heart? A) Tricuspid, pulmonary, bicuspid, aortic. B) Aortic semilunar, pulmonary, tricuspid, bicuspid. C) Mitral, pulmonary, bicuspid, aortic. D) Bicuspid, aortic, tricuspid, pulmonary. 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