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Your Circulatory System

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

  1. What are the three major parts of the circulatory system?

a)

heart, blood, blood vessels

b)

heart, lungs, stomach

c)

blood, lungs, brain

d)

blood vessels, heart, brain

2.

Your heart is __________.

a)

an organ

b)

a body system

c)

a nervous system

d)

a skeletal system

3.

Your heart is about the same size as which other part of your body?

a)

foot

b)

fist

c)

head

d)

toe

4.

What is the heart's job?

a)

to pump your blood

b)

provide new blood cells

c)

get rid of oxygen

d)

produce carbon dioxide

5.

What is the blood's job?

a)

to move things your body needs

b)

to pumps blood

c)

to create oxygen

d)

to create carbon dioxide

6.

Which is NOT part of your circulatory system?

a)

blood

b)

blood vessels

c)

stomach

d)

heart

7.

Beans and green vegetables are a good source of __________, which is good for your blood.

a)

vitamin C

b)

iron

c)

oxygen

d)

sodium

8.

The heart is actually made of __________ separate pumps.

a)

4

b)

2

c)

3

d)

5

9.

The heart is a voluntary muscle.

a)

True

b)

False

10.

The __________ is a protective covering which keeps the heart from rubbing against your lungs and chest wall.

a)

chamber

b)

septum

c)

valve

d)

pericardium

11.

The muscular wall called the __________ divides the two sides of the heart.

a)

pericardium

b)

valve

c)

chamber

d)

septum

12.

What kind of cells surround germs and swallow them?

a)

antibodies

b)

white blood cells

c)

red blood cells

d)

protein

13.

Immunity is your body's ability to resist disease.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

A vaccine has ___________ germs in it.

a)

safe

b)

no

c)

dead or weakened

d)

many kinds of

15.

Which kind of blood vessel carries oxygenated blood away from the heart?

a)

veins

b)

arteries

c)

capillaries

16.

What kind of blood vessel carries deoxygenated blood toward the heart?

a)

veins

b)

capillaries

c)

arteries

17.

What powerful muscle keeps the blood moving throughout the body?

a)

capillaries

b)

arteries

c)

heart

d)

kidneys

18.

The four main parts of blood are white blood cells, platelets, plasm, and __________.

a)

oxygen

b)

red blood cells

c)

carbon dioxide

d)

bone marrow

19.

Red blood cells have no nucleus.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

What is the main job of red blood cells?

a)

fighting disease

b)

clotting blood

c)

carrying oxygen and carbon dioxide

d)

producing bone marrow