Test- Circulatory system

Question 1

8. What is the main function of platelets?

Answer 1

Helping your blood clot (Notes)

Question 2

37. What happens after old blood, which has already circulated through the body, moves into the heart?

Answer 2

The old oxygen travels to the lungs for more oxygen (page 76, Spring Notebook)

Question 3

42. Does blood flow through the heart to the body through veins?

Answer 3

False, go through arteries (page 73, CLF Heart)

Question 4

41. When blood flows away from the heart, does blood pressure increase?

Answer 4

False, decreases (Circulatory Quiz)

Question 5

50. What is fluid from the blood that enters lymphatic vessels know as?

Answer 5

Lymph (page 69, Spring Notebook: worksheet on blood and lymph)

Question 6

57. What is the name of the structure that blood flows to after it leaves the right atrium?

Answer 6

Right ventricle (page 73, CLF Heart)

Question 7

59. What would happen if a person had a hole in their septum?

Answer 7

Oxygen-poor and oxygen-rich blood would mix together and less blood would get to the body (Notes)