Circulatory System Quiz 319 (20 MCQs)

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1. When I check my pulse for 30 seconds, what should I do to that number to figure out my heart rate?
2. There is a very special gas exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen that occurs i the body. This occurs in the:
3. The right atrium receives blood directly from
4. Which type of blood vessels carry blood away from the heart?
5. What stores bile?
6. What part of the heart collects the blood returning from the rest of the body?
7. Capillaries are called ..... vessels because this is where oxygen and carbon dioxide are transferred into tissues.
8. It lets blood be pumped from the heart to the rest of the body.
9. Which is the first heart chamber to receive deoxygenated blood?
10. The largest artery that distributes blood to the different parts of the body
11. Which component makes up the most of your blood?
12. They are pumping chambers. They cause the blood to move around the body.
13. The other term for high blood pressure is
14. What does plasma contain?
15. This is the circulating fluid that supplies the needed materials ( such as oxygen and digested food nutrients ) to all body cells and collects waste materials ( such as carbon dioxide and metabolic waste products ) from them
16. ..... fight infection. They surround and absorb germs which enter the body.
17. Occurs when a clot occurs in the vein of an extremity
18. Which substances are produced during respiration?
19. Superior vena cava-right atrium-Tricuspid valve-right ventricle-Pulmonary valve-pulmonary artery-lungs-Pulmonary veins-left atrium-mitral valve-left ventricle-?-rest of body
20. Which of the following has these characteristics:-biconcave shape-no nucleus when mature