This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Circulatory System – Quiz 83 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Circulatory System Quiz 83 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Blood pressure that is too high. A) HYPERTENSION. B) HYPOTENSION. C) TACHYCARDIA. D) BRADYCARDIA. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) HYPERTENSION. 2. Arteries sub-divide into ..... which further divide into a network of capillaries A) Arterioles. B) Red blood cells. C) White blood cells. D) Venules. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arterioles. 3. Blood returns to the heart through the ..... A) Lungs. B) Plasma. C) Aorta. D) Pulmonary veins. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pulmonary veins. 4. What are the walls of an artery like? A) Very thin. B) Very thick and elastic. C) Thick and has valves. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Very thick and elastic. 5. The vena cava is what type of blood vessel? A) Arteries. B) Veins. C) Capillaries. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Veins. 6. Electrical signals made by your pacemaker can be read by a special machine called an electrocardiograph, or EKG. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. Which of the following is the beginning structure of your skeletal system before you are born? A) Ligaments, tendons, joints, and connective tissues. B) Ligaments, tendons, and connective tissues. C) Cartilage and connective tissues. D) Ligaments and tendons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cartilage and connective tissues. 8. ..... is a cancer of the tissue forming WBCs whose number increases manifold at the cost of RBCs. A) Leukemia. B) Leukopenia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Leukemia. 9. What is a connective tissue? A) Plasma. B) Blood cells. C) Blood. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blood. 10. What is the purpose of heart valves? A) Pump the blood. B) Keep blood flowing in one direction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Keep blood flowing in one direction. 11. Your brain stem controls involuntary functions, like your heartbeat. What else is an involuntary function? A) Playing sports. B) Walking. C) Thinking. D) Breathing. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Breathing. 12. Plasma consists of what percent of water? A) 55%. B) 10%. C) 90%. D) 44%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 90%. 13. In the lungs, oxygen is absorbed into the blood. In which part of the lungs does this mainly happen? A) Bronchi. B) Trachea. C) Bronchioles. D) Alveoli. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Alveoli. 14. Shape of leucocytes A) Biconcave. B) Disc-shaped. C) Spherical. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of the above. 15. Which type of blood goes into the left chamber of the heart? A) Oxygen Poor Blood. B) Oxygen Rich Blood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxygen Rich Blood. 16. In what way is blood the body's liquid messenger? A) Blood delivers nutrients and oxygen to the body's cells. B) Blood caries nutrients from the stomach to the intestines. C) Blood delivers cellular waste to the body's organs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blood delivers nutrients and oxygen to the body's cells. 17. What blood vessel do the RBC take to go from the lungs to the heart? A) Atrium. B) Pulmonary Vein. C) Pulmonary Artery. D) Aorta. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pulmonary Vein. 18. Heart with two atria and two ventricle (Oxygenated and deoxygenated blood are separated) "Double Circulation" A) Fish Heart. B) Reptile/Amphibian Heart. C) Mammals Heart. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mammals Heart. 19. Some capillaries contain valves. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 20. If a person becomes dehydrated, what would there be less of in the blood? A) Erythrocytes. B) Plasma. C) Leukocytes. D) Platelets. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plasma. 21. Structure around the heart A) Pericoronal. B) Transcardia. C) Circumcardia. D) Pericardium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pericardium. 22. Which peripheral pulse site is generally used in emergency situations? A) Radial. B) Apical. C) Temporal. D) Carotid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carotid. 23. Fluid that circulates through the vessels in the body to carry substances to all body parts A) Lymph. B) CS fluid. C) Arterioles. D) Blood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blood. 24. What does a P wave represent? A) Atria contract. B) Ventricles contract. C) Ventricles relax and reset. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Atria contract. 25. The human heart is found in the ..... cavity in the human body. A) Thoracic. B) Dorsal. C) Cranial. D) Pelvic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thoracic. 26. The pulmonary trunk carries blood from which heart chamber into the pulmonary circuit? A) Left ventricle. B) Right atrium. C) Right ventricle. D) Left atrium. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Right ventricle. 27. The cellular process which uses oxygen and sugar to produce energy is called A) Cell division. B) Photosynthesis. C) Cellular respiration. D) DNA replication. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cellular respiration. 28. Red blood cells carry this to other parts of the body A) Plasma. B) Oxygen. C) Blood. D) Platelets. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxygen. 29. Generally contains oxygen ( $O_2$ A) Venous Vessels (Back) [6]. B) Arteries (pulses) [6]. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arteries (pulses) [6]. 30. Blood vessel that carry impure blood from heart to lungs A) Lower Venecave. B) Pulmonary Artery. C) Aorta. D) Pulmonary Vein. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pulmonary Artery. 31. The ..... receives unoxygenated blood from the body by way of the superior and interior vena cava. A) Right atrium. B) Left atrium. C) Capillaries. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Right atrium. 32. What antibodies can be found if someone has blood type B? A) None. B) A. C) B. D) A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A. 33. A person with sickle cell anemia cannot get malaria because the parasite cannot survive in the oddly shaped blood cells. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 34. The correct order of blood flow through the heart is ..... A) Right atrium, right ventricle, pulmonary artery, left atrium, left ventricle, aorta. B) Aorta, left ventricle, left atrium, pulmonary artery, right ventricle, right atrium. C) Left ventricle, right ventricle, left atrium, right atrium, pulmonary artery, aorta. D) None of these options are correct. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Right atrium, right ventricle, pulmonary artery, left atrium, left ventricle, aorta. 35. Intracellular-water in cells have ..... % of water A) 5%. B) 70%. C) 25%. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 70%. 36. Oxygen is carried around the body by ..... cells. A) White. B) Red. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Red. 37. Each blood types has specific ..... on each RBC and produces specific ..... which can prevent certain blood types from being mixed. A) Antibodies, antigens. B) Antigens, arterioles. C) Arterioles, aorta. D) Antigens, antibodies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antigens, antibodies. 38. During exercise blood is directed away from the organs and this is achieved via: A) Arteries pump blood away from the heart. B) Vasodilation of the capillaries at the organs. C) Veins pump blood back to the heart. D) Vasoconstriction of the capillaries at the internal organs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vasoconstriction of the capillaries at the internal organs. 39. The main organ of the circulatory system is the? A) Brain. B) Lungs. C) Heart. D) Glands. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Heart. 40. Which of the following is the term for the hollow passageway in blood vessels through which blood flows? A) Capillary. B) Lumen. C) Metarteriole. D) Pulse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lumen. 41. What blood vessels carry (unoxygenated) blood from the body back to the heart? A) Ducts. B) Capillaries. C) Arteries. D) Veins. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Veins. 42. Which type of blood vessel can you feel your pulse in? A) Capillary. B) Venule. C) Artery. D) Vein. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Artery. 43. Arrange the size of the veins from large to small. A) Veins Vena cava Venules Venous capillaries. B) Vena cava Venules Veins Venous capillaries. C) Vena cavaVeinsVenous capillariesVenules. D) Vena cava Veins Venules Venous capillaries. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vena cava Veins Venules Venous capillaries. 44. Deoxygenated blood flow from the body cells to the heart via ..... A) Vena cava. B) Pulmonary vein. C) Aorta. D) Pulmonary artery. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vena cava. 45. Blood has a liquid part called A) VESSELS. B) VEINS. C) PLASMA. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) PLASMA. 46. Which of the following is NOT the function of the cardiovascular system? A) Transport O2 and nutrients to tissues. B) Storage minerals and fats. C) Removal of CO2 wastes from tissues. D) Regulation of body temperature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Storage minerals and fats. 47. The skin is the largest organ of the body A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 48. Capillaries allow the exchange of materials from the blood to the cell. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) TRUE. 49. Blood in veins is under lower pressure than in arteries and cannot get back to the heart by pressure alone, how does the body assist. A) Muscles contracting. B) Standing on your head. C) Lying down. D) Vasodilation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Muscles contracting. 50. The human heart is located at ..... A) The right side of the chest. B) The left side of your chest. C) The center of your chest slightly tilted to your left. D) The center of your chest slightly tilted to the right. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The center of your chest slightly tilted to your left. 51. A condition marked by severe pain in the chest, often spreading to the shoulders, arms and neck, caused by an inadequate blood supply in the heart (Circulatory) A) Acid Reflux. B) Asthma. C) Angina Pectoris. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Angina Pectoris. 52. WHEN DOES THE HEART REST? A) NEVER. B) ALWAYS. C) DURING THE DAY. D) AT NIGHT. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) NEVER. 53. Which of blood circulation does this image corresponds to? A) Large circulation. B) Systemic circulation. C) Pulmonary circulation. D) Global circulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pulmonary circulation. 54. Causes an overproduction of white blood cells that crowd the blood. A) Hemophilia. B) Sickle-cell anemia. C) Leukemia. D) Heart disease. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Leukemia. 55. The major blood vessels in the neck, that supply blood to the brain, neck and face A) Circle of Willis. B) Veins. C) Arteries. D) Carotid artery. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carotid artery. 56. When the heart contracts A) The blood is pushed out of the heart into the arteries. B) The blood is pushed out of the heart into the veins. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The blood is pushed out of the heart into the arteries. 57. The major concern for patients with an aneurysm is hemorrhage. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 58. What is the main function of blood? A) Carry the digested food and oxygen to all parts of your body. B) Excretes waste materials from your body. C) Pumps blood to your body. D) Regulates hormones in your body. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carry the digested food and oxygen to all parts of your body. 59. The job of the circulatory system is to A) Move blood around the body. B) Get food to the body. C) Change the color of blood. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Move blood around the body. 60. Blood carries ..... and ..... to all parts of the body A) Oxygen, carbon dioxide. B) Oxygen and food. C) Food and carbon dioxide. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxygen and food. ← PreviousNext →Related 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 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books