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8B

Quick Quiz 2

On your answer sheet, write in the correct letter for each question.

8Ba
1 What is digested food used for in our bodies?
A to provide carbon dioxide
B to provide oxygen
C to provide energy and chemicals to make
new substances
D to provide energy only
2 What is the name of the process that releases
energy in our bodies?
A respiration
B excretion
C reproduction
D photosynthesis
3 Living cells in the bodies of animals all
produce a gas that turns limewater milky.
This gas is:
A nitrogen.
B oxygen.
C carbon dioxide.
D carbon monoxide.
4 When glucose is burnt with oxygen, carbon
dioxide and water are produced. The word
equation for this is:
A oxygen + glucose carbon dioxide + water
B carbon dioxide + water glucose + oxygen
C glucose + oxygen carbon dioxide + water
D glucose + oxygen = water + carbon dioxide

8Bb
1 The heart and blood vessels make up the:
A digestive system.
B breathing system.
C nervous system.
D circulatory system.
2 You can feel a pulse in your wrist. You feel
one pulse beat for each:
A beat of your heart.
B minute.
C second.
D breath you take.

4 The heart has two halves. This is because:


A one half pumps blood around the body
one way, and the other half pumps blood
around the body in the other direction.
B one half pumps blood, and the other half
pumps air.
C one half pumps blood to the lungs, and
the other half pumps blood around the rest
of the body.
D one half is not used except in an
emergency.

8Bc
1 When you exercise:
A your pulse rate stays the same, but your
breathing rate goes up.
B your pulse rate goes up, and your
breathing rate goes up.
C your pulse rate goes down, but your
breathing rate goes up.
D your pulse rate goes up, but your breathing
rate goes down.
2 Which of these could not cause muscle tissue
to die?
A The blood vessel leading to it becomes
blocked.
B The blood vessel contains blood that is
being pumped very quickly.
C The blood supplying it contains a poison.
D The blood supplying it carries more oxygen
than normal.

3 The smallest blood vessels are called:


A arteries.
B veins.
C tributaries.
D capillaries.
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8B

Quick Quiz 2 (continued)

3 How is carbon dioxide transported around


the body?
A carried on red blood cells
B dissolved in the plasma
C carried on white blood cells
D as a gas

3 What is breathing?
A air moving in and out of the lungs
B when glucose and oxygen react to form
carbon dioxide and water
C when oxygen is taken into the lungs
D muscles making the lungs change size

4 When Mary starts to run there is an increase


in the amount of blood flowing through her
blood vessels. Which of these explains why
this needs to happen?
A Cells need more oxygen, and more carbon
dioxide must be removed.
B Cells need more carbon dioxide, and more
oxygen must be removed.
C There are greater amounts of oxygen and
carbon dioxide that need to be removed
from cells.
D Cells need more oxygen and more carbon
dioxide.

4 Mucus lines the air passages and traps dirt


and tiny organisms called microbes. It is
moved up and out of the lungs by tiny hairs
called:
A cilia.
B villi.
C filaments.
D bristles.

8Bd
1 Oxygen entering the bood would pass
through the following lung structures in the
order:
trachea
air sac
alveoli.
A bronchus
bronchus
alveoli
air sac.
B trachea
trachea
bronchus
air sac.
C alveoli
bronchus
air sac
alveoli.
D trachea
2 Which of these is not a way in which the
lungs are adapted to their job?
A The capillary walls are thick.
B There are many alveoli.
C There are many capillaries.
D The air sac walls are thin.

8Be
1 Exhalation is the correct scientific term for:
A bad breath
B breathing out.
C breathing in.
D breathing.
2 What substance can be used to test for the
presence of carbon dioxide?
A iodine solution
B limewater
C oxygen
D cobalt chloride
3 The air around you contains:
A more oxygen and more water vapour than
the air in your lungs.
B more oxygen and less carbon dioxide than
the air in your lungs.
C more carbon dioxide and less oxygen than
the air in your lungs.
D more carbon dioxide and less water vapour
than the air in your lungs.
4 What do fish use to take oxygen out of the
water?
A lungs
B gills
C swim bladders
D noses

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