Circulatory System Extra Practice Multiple Choice

1) What is the circulatory system?

a) The body’s breathing system
b) The body’s system of nerves
c) The body’s nutrient-absorbing system
d) The body’s blood transporting system

2) Which type of blood vessels carries blood away from the heart?
a) veins
b) arteries
c) capillaries
d) venules

3) What part of the blood carries dissolved minerals, proteins, gases?

a) white blood cells
b) red blood cells
c) plasma
d) platelets

4) What is the main job of the red blood cells?

a) to clot blood
b) to filter impurities from the blood
c) to carry messages from the brain to the tissues
d) To carry oxygen to the tissues

5) Which is not considered to be a part of the circulatory system?

a) heart c) blood vessels
b) blood vessels d) lungs
6) What would happen to people who have an open wound, but lacked platelets?
a) They may bleed to death
b) Nothing. Clotting is not vital to survival.
c) They would have to take regular doses of plasma.
d) They would develop more red blood cells to compensate.

7) What happens to the blood when it is pumped through the capillaries lining the alveoli of the lungs?
a) Platelets are exchanged for plasma
b) Carbon dioxide is replaced with oxygen
c) Blood fills the lungs and causes coughing
d) Nothing. The blood flows past the lungs.

8) What protein on red blood cells allows them to bind to oxygen?

a) globulin
b) hemoglobin
c) heteroglobin
d) capillary
9) Identify the part of the heart marked with the “?”.

a) Descending aorta
b) Inferior vena cava
c) Superior vena cava
d) Pulmonary vein

10) Identify the part of the heart marked with the “?”

SOLUTION SET:

1) d

2) b

3) c

4) d

5) d

6) a

7) b

8) b
a) Descending aorta
9) a
b) Inferior vena cava
10) b
c) Superior vena cava
d) Pulmonary vein