Human circulatory system
Practice questions
1. Human have ______ chambered heart . 5. Arteries carry _____ blood ?
A. 2 chambered heart A. Pure blood
B. 3 chambered heart B. Impure blood
C. 4 chambered heart C. Oxygenated blood
D. None of these D. Both a and c
2. Double circulation was discovered by ? 6. What is the primary function of the
circulatory system?
A. Robert hooke
(a) Digestion
B. William Harvey
(b) Respiration
C. Alexander
(c) Transportation
D. A. V Leeuwenhoek
(d) Excretion
3. Which is the largest vein in human body?
7. Which organ is the central pumping organ
A. Aorta
of the circulatory system?
B. Pulmonary vein
(a) Lungs
C. Venacava
(b) Liver
D. Pulmonary artery
(c) Heart
(d) Kidneys
4. Veins carry ______ blood ?
A. Pure blood
8. What are the main components of blood?
B. Impure blood
(a) Plasma, red blood cells, white blood
C. Oxygenated blood cells, platelets
D. Both a and c (b) Water, oxygen, carbon dioxide, nutrients
(c) Arteries, veins, capillaries (c) Red blood cells, white blood cells,
platelets
(d) Heart, lungs, blood vessels
(d) Plasma, water, oxygen
9. What is the function of red blood cells?
13. Which type of blood vessel carries
(a) To fight infections
oxygen-rich blood away from the heart?
(b) To transport oxygen
(a) Arteries
(c) To clot blood
(b) Veins
(d) To produce antibodies
(c) Capillaries
(d) Lymphatics
10. What is the function of white blood
cells?
14. Which type of blood vessel carries
(a) To transport oxygen
oxygen-depleted blood back to the heart?
(b) To clot blood
(a) Arteries
(c) To fight infections
(b) Veins
(d) To produce hormones
(c) Capillaries
(d) Lymphatics
11. What is the function of platelets?
(a) To transport oxygen
15. What is the smallest blood vessel?
(b) To fight infections
(a) Arteries
(c) To clot blood
(b) Veins
(d) To produce hormones
(c) Capillaries
(d) Lymphatics
12.What are the three types of blood
vessels?
16. What is the fluid portion of blood
(a) Arteries, veins, capillaries
called?
(b) Lungs, heart, blood vessels
(a) Plasma
(b) Serum 20. What is a disorder of the circulatory
system in which the blood does not clot
(c) Lymph
properly?
(d) Platelets
(a) Anemia
(b) Hypertension
17. What is blood pressure?
(c) Hemophilia
(a) The force of blood against the walls of
(d) Leukemia
the arteries
(b) The amount of blood in the body
21. What is a disorder of the circulatory
(c) The rate at which the heart beats
system in which there is a deficiency of red
(d) The amount of oxygen in the blood blood cells or hemoglobin?
(a) Anemia
18. What is the upper number in a blood (b) Hypertension
pressure reading called?
(c) Hemophilia
(a) Diastolic pressure
(d) Leukemia
(b) Systolic pressure
(c) Pulse rate
22. What is a disorder of the circulatory
(d) Blood sugar system in which there is an uncontrolled
increase in the number of white blood cells?
(a) Anemia
19. What is the lower number in a blood
pressure reading called? (b) Hypertension
(a) Diastolic pressure (c) Hemophilia
(b) Systolic pressure (d) Leukemia
(c) Pulse rate
(d) Blood sugar 23. What is the normal range for blood
pressure for adults?
(a) 90/60 to 120/80 mmHg
(b) 120/80 to 140/90 mmHg
(c) 140/90 to 160/100 mmHg 27. Which chamber of the heart pumps
blood to the lungs?
(d) 160/100 to 180/110 mmHg
(a) Left atrium
(b) Right atrium
24.What is the name of the protein in red
blood cells that carries oxygen? (c) Left ventricle
(a) Hemoglobin (d) Right ventricle
(b) Myoglobin
(c) Fibrinogen 28. Which chamber of the heart pumps
blood to the body?
(d) Albumin
(a) Left atrium
(b) Right atrium
25. What is the name of the muscular layer
of the heart? (c) Left ventricle
(a) Pericardium (d) Right ventricle
(b) Myocardium
(c) Endocardium
(d) Epicardium
26. What are the four chambers of the
heart?
(a) Left atrium, right atrium, left ventricle,
right ventricle
(b) Superior vena cava, inferior vena cava,
pulmonary artery, pulmonary vein
(c) Aorta, pulmonary artery, pulmonary
vein, coronary artery
(d) Red blood cells, white blood cells,
platelets, plasma
