Life Science: Human Body Systems, Book D

Section 1: The Circulatory System

Self-Check Quiz-Eng.

1.
Blood makes up about eight percent of your body's weight. If a person weighs 120 pounds, about how much of that mass is blood?
A)96 pounds
B)128 pounds
C)2 pounds
D)10 pounds
2.
Which of these fights invaders of your body?
A)lymphocytes
B)diastolic pressure
C)white blood cells
D)inferior vena cava
3.
Which of these is a condition related to blood clotting?
A)hemophilia
B)atherosclerosis
C)HIV
D)diffusion
4.
What does a clot do?
A)It makes antibodies to fight infection.
B)It stops blood from escaping from a cut.
C)It prevents blood from traveling between the atriums of your heart.
D)It identifies your blood type.
5.
Which of these is true?
A)A person with type A blood can receive type B blood.
B)A person with type AB blood can only donate blood to a person with type AB blood.
C)A person with type O blood cannot receive type O blood.
D)A person with type B blood cannot donate blood to a person with type AB blood.
6.
Which of these is a blood disease?
A)hypertension
B)leukemia
C)platelets
D)fibrin
7.
Which of these is a function of blood?
A)digest food
B)produce wastes
C)transport nutrients
D)dissolve bone
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