ATS GCSE Biology - Organisation: Heart and circulation

The heart is

• a cell that pumps blood around the body in a double circulatory system
• a tissue that pumps blood around the body in a double circulatory system
• an organ that pumps blood around the body in a double circulatory system
• an organ system that pumps blood around the body in a double circulatory system

The human circulatory system is

• single system
• double system
• triple system
• quadruple system

What is the name of the artery that leaves the heart from the left ventricle

• Aorta
• Vena cava
• Pulmonary artery
• Pulmonary vein

What is the large vein that brings deoxygenated blood from the body to the heart?

• Aorta
• Vena cava
• Pulmonary artery
• Pulmonary vein

This blood vessel transports deoxygenated blood to the lungs to pick up oxygen.

• Aorta
• Vena cava
• Pulmonary artery
• Pulmonary vein

This blood vessel returns oxygenated blood to the heart, ready to be sent around the rest of the body.

• Aorta
• Vena cava
• Pulmonary artery
• Pulmonary vein

Blood from the body returns back to the heart into:

• left ventricle
• right ventricle
• right atrium
• left atrium

The blood leaves this chamber of the heart to go to the lungs

• left ventricle
• right ventricle
• right atrium
• left atrium

Oxygenated blood from the lungs returns to the heart into the

• left ventricle
• right ventricle
• right atrium
• left atrium

The aorta is the major artery that takes blood away from which heart chamber?

• left ventricle
• right ventricle
• right atrium
• left atrium