Circulatory System Quiz 461 (20 MCQs)

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1. Cardiovascular disease is NOT among the highest causes of death in Americans.

Correct Answer: B) False.

2. What type of muscle is the heart?

Correct Answer: A) Cardiac muscle.

3. Which blood vessel carries oxygenated (oxygen rich) blood?

Correct Answer: A) Arteries.

4. Which of the following is NOT part of the cardiovascular system?

Correct Answer: A) Bones.

5. Your heart, blood, and blood vessels make up the .....

Correct Answer: B) Circulatory system.

6. When blood pressure is taken, the number on the bottom is the pressure during diastole. This correlates with which of the following?

Correct Answer: B) Ventricular relaxation.

7. Blood platelets release an enzyme to activate prothrombin is known as.....

Correct Answer: D) Thrombokinase is thrombokinase.

8. Your heart is an example of which type of muscle?

Correct Answer: C) Involuntary.

9. Why is the fish able to only have 1 atrium and 1 ventricle?

Correct Answer: A) Gas exchange is efficient and aquatic.

10. TYPE of blood flow that cycles from the right ventricle to the lungs and back to the left atrium

Correct Answer: B) Pulmonary circulation.

11. What is Maximum Heart Rate?

Correct Answer: C) The number you shouldn't go past too often while exercising.

12. ..... is part of nutrition and takes place in the respiratory system.

Correct Answer: D) Respiration.

13. A tiny, narrow blood vessel that allows wastes, oxygen, and nutrients to pass between the blood and cells is:

Correct Answer: B) A capillary.

14. When a group of organs work together to perform a particular function they create a/an

Correct Answer: A) Organ system.

15. Veins carry deoxygenated blood

Correct Answer: B) False.

16. Which Blood type is considered to be the universal donor?

Correct Answer: C) O.

17. Blood vessels directly involved in both internal and external respiration:

Correct Answer: C) Capillaries.

18. Should experiments be repeated over and over to see if the results are the same each time?

Correct Answer: A) Yes.

19. The largest vein in the body is the;

Correct Answer: A) Vena cava.

20. Occurs when the ventricles of the heart are unable to contract effectively and blood pools in the heart

Correct Answer: A) Heart Failure.