CHAPTER 11: QUIZ 11B - Animal Structure and Function

Which chambers pump blood out of a vertebrate’s heart?

• arteries

• atria

• veins

• ventricles

What is the maximum number of chambers in any vertebrate heart?

• three

• four

• five

• six

Mammals have a muscle called a(n) ________ to help them breathe.

• air sac

• diaphragm

• lung

• trachea

The transporting fluid found in an open circulatory system is circulated by body movements.

• True

• False

Tor f: Larval insects use gills for respiration.

• True

• False

A grasshopper has tiny openings called _______ along the sides of its body. (Most insects have these, as well)

• Tracheae

• Tubes

• Spiracles

• Gills

The spiracles on the side of a grasshoppper’s body lead into a network of tubes called _______ that reach all of the grasshopper’s tissues and are the place where oxygen and carbon dioxide are exchanged.

• Gills

• Spiracles

• Respiratory system

• Tracheae

T or F: every cell in an animals body needs certain things to survive, how, and reproduce.

• True

• False

The process that animals use to transport things throughout their bodies, like nutrients, oxygen and getting rid of wastes and carbon dioxide.

• Circulatory system

• Circulation

• Open circulatory system

• Closed circulatory system

If an animal has multiple organs working to move things in their body then this is called a _______

• Circulation

• Circulatory system

• Open circulatory system

• Closed circulatory system