Circulatory System Quiz 612 (20 MCQs)

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1. The function of a vein is to:

Correct Answer: C) Carries deoxygenated blood toward the heart.

2. Called as the dispatching chambers

Correct Answer: B) Ventricle.

3. How many parts, or chambers, is the heart divided into?

Correct Answer: D) 4.

4. True or False:Your blood is always red.

Correct Answer: A) True.

5. The process in which materials are exchanged from a higher concentration to a lower concentration is called?

Correct Answer: A) Diffusion.

6. Is your heart made of voluntary or involuntary muscle?

Correct Answer: B) Involuntary.

7. What is the function of the atrium in the heart?

Correct Answer: B) It receives blood coming in from the veins.

8. The part of the heart that receives blood from all over the body is.....

Correct Answer: A) Right porch.

9. Which WBC kills parasites?

Correct Answer: B) Eosinophils.

10. Largest artery in the heart

Correct Answer: A) Aorta.

11. What is removed from the blood when it travels to the lungs?

Correct Answer: A) Carbon dioxide.

12. Returns blood from body areas below the diaphragm-

Correct Answer: A) Inferior vena cava.

13. How many chambers does the heart have and what are they called.

Correct Answer: C) 4.

14. Receiving chamber for oxygenated blood

Correct Answer: B) THE.

15. In the pig heart what was the hard white tissue found at the top of the heart?

Correct Answer: B) Fat.

16. Which valve has 3 cusps and is in the right side?

Correct Answer: A) Tricuspid.

17. The valve that separates the right atrium and right ventricle is called

Correct Answer: A) Tricuspid valve.

18. Contains no nucleus.

Correct Answer: D) RED BLOOD CELLS.

19. Vein that empties blood from the upper body into the upper right heart chamber

Correct Answer: B) Superior Vena Cava.

20. This triggers contraction in the atria:

Correct Answer: A) Because of the difference.