Circulatory System Quiz 172 (60 MCQs)

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1. What muscle separates the thorax from the abdomen during breathing?
2. Which artery supplies blood to the right atrium and right ventricle of the heart?
3. What is considered by doctors to be the "anatomical pacemaker" of the heart?
4. Subdivision of the PNS that controls involuntary activities, such as regulating cardiac and smooth muscle glands.
5. Arteries, veins, and capillaries are three types of .....
6. What tube connects the mouth to the stomach
7. Right upper chamber of the heart.
8. Which is a cardiovascular muscle?
9. What type of blood vessel has blood that is blueish in color?
10. Supplies blood to the liver-
11. What is the name for high blood pressure?
12. True or False:The lymph nodes produce white blood cells
13. Right atrium function:
14. The ..... blood returns to the heart through the .....
15. This is a genetic condition where plasma lacks a clotting factor.
16. ..... typically carry blood away from the heart.
17. What is label "8" ?
18. What blood type is the "universal donor" because it can be donated to anyone?
19. What important function is happening in the capillaries of the systemic pathway?
20. What is the heart's pacemaker?
21. Plasma is made up of .....
22. In which digestive organ are villi found?
23. The heart is medial to the lungs and ..... to the diaphragm. *
24. Thanks to your nervous system, breathing is an ..... action.
25. How are single-celled organisms and multi-celled organisms similar?
26. What do muscles do for your body?
27. Drop off oxygen & nutrients and pick up carbon dioxide & waste products
28. Disease related with the malfunction of valves
29. What important activity takes place in the lungs?
30. Chamber of the heart that is responsible for pumping oxygenated blood to tissues all over the body.
31. Mechanically widening a narrow or obstructed blood vessel is called:
32. The velocity of blood flow is lowest in the capillaries which allow exchange to occur because .....
33. Blood pressure is used to determine
34. What type of blood cells does erythrocytes have and where does it produced?
35. Is blood flowing the lungs into the heart rich or poor in oxygen?
36. What will happen if cilia do not function properly?
37. Which of the following statements about the circulatory system is false?
38. This blood types is the universal recipient, meaning they can receive blood to any blood type.
39. What is the function of the aortic valve?
40. What blood vessels link the smallest arteries with the smallest veins?
41. What is something that prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells have in common?
42. What special blood vessels are in the lungs?
43. What "happens" in the lymph nodes?
44. The ..... transports blood from the right ventricle to the lungs
45. What helps to keep blood flowing onwards away from the heart in an artery?
46. Our heart never stops beating.
47. The client has hypertension that means the their blood pressure is
48. In which part of the lung does gas exchange occur?
49. Lymph is modified blood that contains .....
50. The end of a capillary close to a vein is called the
51. Extends between the ribs, sending branches to the muscles and other structures of the chest wall-
52. The division of the trachea forms
53. A ..... occurs when you have the narrowing of arteries due to the buildup of fatty deposits
54. Pulmonary vein:to
55. Main parts include:mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestines, large intestines
56. Which of the following best describes white blood cells?
57. After the nose, air passes into the
58. True or false:red blood cells carry a protein called hemoglobin?
59. How digestive system is linked to the circulatory system?
60. Which of the following lists the valves in the order through which the blood flows from the vena cava through the heart?