Circulatory System Test Review

What the the functions of the Circulatory System? (Multiple answers)

• Transports materials (gases, nutrients, waste products, molecules, hormones) to different

  parts of the body

• Removes waste products (cell waste and carbon dioxide)

• helps your body move

• Fights diseases

How many chambers does the heart have?

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

How does the heart work?

• It pumps blood around the rest of the body, back to the heart and then to the lungs.

• It pumps blood first to the rest of the body, back to the lungs and then to the heart.

• It pumps blood first to the lungs, back to the heart and then around the rest of the body.

Capillaries connect arteries to veins and exchange materials

• Arteries

• Carries blood away from the heart

• Veins

• Carries blood into the heart

• Capillaries

• connect arteries to veins and exchange materials

Match the disorders:

• atherosclerosis

• This is a condition where fat builds up and hardens inside of an artery.

• stroke

• This is a condition where the flow of blood is blocked to the brain and brain cells are damaged or die.

• heart attack

• This is a condition where the flow of blood to the heart is blocked and the heart cells become damaged or die.

• Hypertension

• This is another name for "high blood pressure". When the force of blood is too high.

Match the following:

• pulmonary vein

• This particular blood vessel carries deoxygenated blood away from the heart to the lungs.

• pulmonary artery

• Both the superior & inferior vena cava carry blood into the ___

• right atrium

• This particular blood vessel carries de-oxygenated blood from the lower half of the body to the right atrium.

• Inferior Vena Cava

• This particular blood vessel carries oxygenated blood to the heart coming from the lungs.

After blood leaves the right atrium, it enters the ___.

• right atrium

• left atrium

• right ventricle

• left ventricle

After the blood leaves the left ventricle is enters the ___

• right atrium

• left atrium

• right ventricle

• aorta

This particular blood vessel carries de-oxygenated blood from the upper half of the body to the right atrium

• superior vena cava

• inferior vena cava

• pulmonary artery

• pulmonary vein

Where do you find your pulse?

• Neck, Wrist & Chest

• In your ears

• pinky finger only

• Neck and pinky finger only