This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Circulatory System – Quiz 33 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Circulatory System Quiz 33 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What color are arteries? A) Red. B) Blue. C) Purple. D) Black. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Red. 2. Which of the following is associated with oxygenated blood? A) Right Ventricle. B) Aorta. C) Septum. D) Pulmonary Artery. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aorta. 3. Thick, strong and elastic A) Venous Vessels (Back) [6]. B) Arteries (pulses) [6]. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arteries (pulses) [6]. 4. The ..... side of the heart pumps the deoxygenated blood to the ..... circuit so it can be replaced with oxygen in the ..... A) Left, systemic, lungs. B) Right, pulmonary, lungs. C) Left, pulmonary, lungs. D) Right, systemic, lungs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Right, pulmonary, lungs. 5. Which are larger, atria or ventricles? A) Ventricles. B) Atria. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ventricles. 6. What type of blood vessel is where oxygen, nutrients, carbon dioxide, and wastes enter and leave the blood? A) Arteries. B) Veins. C) Capillaries. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Capillaries. 7. A thrombus is a blood clot. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 8. What is meant by blood pressure? A) The pressure generated by the heart when pumping blood. B) Pressure difference between arteries and veins. C) The pressure generated by blood vessels as blood flows. D) The pressure difference between capillaries and other blood vessels. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The pressure generated by the heart when pumping blood. 9. Which Blood Type is known as the "universal donor" ? A) Type O. B) Type AB. C) Type A. D) Type B. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Type O. 10. The bottom two heart chambers are called ..... A) Ventricles. B) Atria. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ventricles. 11. The bleeding will soon stop if you cut ..... A) An artery. B) A vein. C) A capillary. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A capillary. 12. The right side of the heart contains ..... blood A) Unoxygenated blood. B) Oxygenated blood. C) RBCs. D) Poor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unoxygenated blood. 13. When you don't have enough red blood cells in your blood, you have ..... A) Sickle-cell. B) Leukemia. C) Hemophilia. D) Anemia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Anemia. 14. Where does circulation begin? A) Left ventricle. B) Right ventricle. C) Left atrium. D) Right atrium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Right atrium. 15. There one ..... human blood groups/types. A) 4. B) 5. C) 3. D) 2. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4. 16. Liquid part of blood, carries hormones, nutrients, wastes, antibodies A) White blood cells. B) Platelets. C) Red blood cells. D) Plasma. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plasma. 17. Which of the following determines the blood type? A) Antibody. B) Antigen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antigen. 18. In this type of circulatory system, capillaries surround organs, tissues and cells. A) Open. B) Closed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Closed. 19. Parts of the Heart:arteryReceiving chambers of the heart A) Atria. B) Aorta. C) Ventricles. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Atria. 20. What type of oxygen do arteries have? A) Rich oxygen. B) Poor oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rich oxygen. 21. Why is it important that a septum separate deoxygenated and oxygenated blood in reptiles (not crocadiles)? A) Ectotherm/terrestrial and do not have cutaneous respiration like the frogs. B) Endotherm/terrestrial and do not have cutaneous respiration like the frogs. C) Do cutaneous respiration. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ectotherm/terrestrial and do not have cutaneous respiration like the frogs. 22. Blood that comes from the lungs to the heart is A) High concentration of oxygen. B) High concentration of sugar. C) Low concentration of oxygen. D) High concentration of carbon dioxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) High concentration of oxygen. 23. The membrane that covers the heart is called the ..... A) Myocardium. B) Pleural membrane. C) Epicardium. D) Pericardium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pericardium. 24. About how large is the human heart? A) The size of 2 fists. B) The size of an onion. C) 4.5 pounds. D) The size of a fist. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The size of a fist. 25. What causes the stomata to open? A) So that chloroplast can trap light energy. B) So that transpiration can occur. C) So that photosynthesis can occur. D) So that absisic acid can be produced. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) So that photosynthesis can occur. 26. Which vessel carries blood to the lungs? A) Aorta. B) Pulmonary vein. C) Pulmonary artery. D) Vena cava. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pulmonary artery. 27. Which type of blood vessels carry blood away from the heart and to the rest of the body? A) Venule. B) Artery. C) Vein. D) Capillary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Artery. 28. Which of the following brings oxygenated blood to the head and shoulders? A) Pulmonary artery. B) Inferior vena cava. C) Brachiocephalic artery. D) Pulmonary vein. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brachiocephalic artery. 29. Clumping of particles which results when incompatible blood types are mixed within the body and the antibodies of one blood type react against the antigens of the other A) Antigens. B) Type A. C) Rh grouping system. D) Type A. E) Agglutination. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Agglutination. 30. What keeps blood from flowing backwards in the heart? A) Atrium. B) Valves. C) Artery. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Valves. 31. What type of blood vessel is the MOST muscular and elastic? A) Capillary. B) Venule. C) Vein. D) Artery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Artery. 32. How is water made in your body? A) When your blood forgets to carry it to your kidneys. B) When you drink too much. C) When it breaks down food. D) When you sleep too long. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) When it breaks down food. 33. The heart is a major organ in which body system? A) Circulatory. B) Respiratory. C) Muscular. D) Excretory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Circulatory. 34. The blood flowing from the lung to the heart has the most ....., A) Carbon dioxide. B) Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxygen. 35. Which blood vessel allows exchange of materials? A) Arteriole. B) Vein. C) Capillary. D) Artery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Capillary. 36. Which structure controls the flow of blood to your veins and keeps it flowing in one direction? A) Veins. B) Valves. C) Capillaries. D) Arteries. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Valves. 37. Wall of the heart that lines all of the heart chambers and covers valves A) Epicardium. B) Myocardium. C) Endocardium. D) Pericardium. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Endocardium. 38. Blood vessels that bring blood back to the heart are ..... A) Blood pressure. B) Veins. C) Arteries. D) Capillaries. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Veins. 39. Tiny blood vessels surrounding the alveoli A) Cilia. B) Capillaries. C) Alveoli. D) Larynx. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Capillaries. 40. Transpiration is a part of ..... ? A) Precipitation. B) Sublimation. C) Evaporation. D) Condensation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Evaporation. 41. The part of the blood responsible for fighting infection are the ..... A) White blood cells. B) Plasma. C) Red blood cells. D) Platelets. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) White blood cells. 42. The upper chambers of your heart are called ..... A) Ventricle. B) Atrium. C) Artery. D) Vestments. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Atrium. 43. Raynaud syndrome is characterized by ..... of the arterioles of the extremities A) Vasoconstriction. B) Vasodilation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vasoconstriction. 44. What is the composition of blood? A) 55% plasma, 45% cells. B) 50% plasma, 50% cells. C) 60% plasma, 40% cells. D) 45% plasma, 55% cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 55% plasma, 45% cells. 45. What happens if the valves present in the heart do not function well? What happens when the valves in the heart don't work properly? A) Blood doesn't flow forward to ventricles. B) Blood doesn't flow backwards to atria. C) Blood flows backwards to atria. Blood flows backward into the atria. D) Blood flows forward to ventricles well. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blood flows backwards to atria. Blood flows backward into the atria. 46. ..... HELPS IN BLOOD CLOTTING. A) BLOOD CELLS. B) PLATELETS. C) WBCs. D) RBCs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) PLATELETS. 47. Define what platelets do in the blood. A) Yellowish liquid that contains water, nutrients, salts and gases. B) Carry oxygen to the cells and carry carbon dioxide away. C) Attack invading microorganisms. D) Fragments of cells that help with blood clotting; they stop bleeding. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fragments of cells that help with blood clotting; they stop bleeding. 48. Tube that connects the pharynx with the lungs A) Esophagus. B) Trachea. C) Alveolus. D) Bronchus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trachea. 49. Which blood cells are highest in number? A) Leukocytes. B) Erythrocytes. C) Thrombocytes. D) Erythropoietin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Erythrocytes. 50. The ..... pumps blood to the lungs through pulmonary arteries. A) Left atrium. B) Right ventricle. C) Left ventricle. D) Right atrium. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Right ventricle. 51. A condition in which the force of your blood against your artery walls is high A) High Blood Pressure. B) Hemophilia. C) Atherosclerosis. D) Stroke. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) High Blood Pressure. 52. This is a gas our cells need to survive. A) Nitrogen. B) Oxygen. C) Carbon dioxide. D) Helium. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxygen. 53. Myocardial Infarction is caused by: A) Hardening of arteries. B) Lumpy thickness develop in the inner walls of arteries. C) Clot which may occur in the lumen of a coronary artery. D) Sudden interruption in blood flow towards a portion of heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sudden interruption in blood flow towards a portion of heart. 54. What is the main function of erythrocytes? A) Carry oxygen. B) Carry minerals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carry oxygen. 55. TYPES OF BLOOD VESSELS:* Take nutrients to the cells and eliminate waste. A) Arteries. B) Veins. C) Capillaries. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Capillaries. 56. Alveoli have very thick walls to maximise the distance that gases have to move. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 57. The tube that is in your throat that is part of the respiratory system is called the A) Esophagus. B) Trachea. C) Bronchial tube. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trachea. 58. Where does deoxygenated blood enter the heart? A) Superior and inferior vena cava. B) Pulmonary artery. C) Pulmonary vein. D) Aorta. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Superior and inferior vena cava. 59. A diaphragm contracts downward, creating a vacuum that causes a rush of fresh air into the ..... A) Alveoli. B) Trachea. C) Heart. D) Lungs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lungs. 60. What should be reduced in the diet to maintain good health? A) Sugar and sweets. B) Vegetables and fruits. C) Protein and carbohydrates. D) Water and healthy fats. 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