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PE1 Circulatory System

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What does the Circulatory System do?
a)
Circulates the Blood throughout the body
b)
Helps digestion
c)
Makes the muscles of the body move
d)
Helps the decision making process
2.
What organ keeps the blood moving within the Circulatory System?
a)
Lungs
b)
Liver
c)
Heart
d)
Eyes
3.
What is an upper, thin-walled chamber through which blood is pumped to the ventricles?
a)
Valves
b)
Ventricle
c)
Veins
d)
Atrium
4.
What is a lower, thick-walled chamber that receives blood from the Atrium?
a)
Aorta
b)
Ventricle
c)
Arteries
d)
Atrium
5.
What are structures that temporarily close a passage or permit blood flow in only one direction?
a)
Heart
b)
Valves
c)
Atrium
d)
Veins
6.
What does Deoxygenated mean?
a)
Oxygen-rich
b)
Lungs
c)
blood flow
d)
Oxygen- poor
7.
About how many gallons of blood are in the body? 
a)
1
b)
2
c)
3
d)
4
8.
A complex iron protein that binds to oxygen?
a)
Red blood cells
b)
Carbon Dioxide 
c)
Hemoglobin 
d)
Blood
9.
What do Red-Blood cells do?
a)
Carry oxygen from the lungs to the body cells and  transport carbon dioxide from the cells back to the lungs
b)
keeps blood flowing in one direction to the heart and prevent blood from flowing backwards
c)
Collects  blood from the capillaries and drain it into the veins
d)
Bring nutriients to the cells and carries away waste materials
10.
What are white blood cells also known as?
a)
Water cells
b)
O2 cells
c)
Food provider cells
d)
Fighter cells
11.
What does blood do?
a)
Carries Water to cells
b)
Carries Oxygen to cells
c)
Carries Food to cells
d)
All the above
12.
When oxygen-rich blood is carried AWAY from the heart, it travels through an...
a)
Artery
b)
Nerves
c)
Veins
d)
Blood
13.
____________ help the blood to clot.
a)
White blood cells
b)
Red Blood Cells
c)
Platelets
d)
Plasma
14.
The smallest type of blood vessel  and connects veins and arteries is ________? 
a)
Nerve
b)
Arteries
c)
Veins
d)
Capillaries
15.
The upper chamber of the heart that receives oxygen-poor blood from the body is the...
a)
Right Atrium
b)
Left Atrium
c)
Right Ventricle 
d)
Left Ventricle
16.
This type of vessel carries blood TO the heart:
a)
Capillary
b)
Aorta
c)
Veins
d)
Arteries
17.
The cells in the blood that help fight germs and illnesses are the...
a)
Red blood cells
b)
Platelets
c)
Plasma
d)
White blood cells
18.
What is there MOST of in blood?
a)
White blood cells
b)
Red blood cells
c)
Platelets
d)
Nutrients
19.
Choose the correct order blood goes through the circulatory system:
a)
left ventricle, veins, lungs, heart, right ventricle, right atrium, arteries
b)
heart, arteries, lungs, post office, veins, tissues, mailbox
c)
right atrium, right ventricle, lungs, left atrium, left ventricle, arteries, tissues/cells, veins
d)
right ventricle, right atrium, lungs, left ventricle, left atrium, tissues, arteries, veins
20.
Which type of vessel has walls that are thick and strong to handle the the pressure of the heart's pumping action?
a)
Arteries
b)
Capillaries
c)
Veins
d)
Muscles