El-Nasr Boys School

American department

3rd quarter Biology revision sheet

Grade (10)

1) What is meant by: -

1- Plasma
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2- Pacemaker
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3- Platelets
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4- Veins
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5- Arteries
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2) Answer the following questions: -

1- What is the node located in the upper back wall of the right atrium
that initiates the heart beats?
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2- What is the node located between right atrium and right ventricle?
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3- All arteries carry oxygenated blood except for this artery what is this
artery?
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 4- What are the body’s largest veins?
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5- What is the body largest artery?
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6- The heart is divided into left and right by?
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7- What is the valve that controls the blood flow into the aorta?
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8- Which arteries and veins supply blood to the heart muscles?
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9- Which type of blood cells fight infections?
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10- Which blood vessels carry blood away from the heart?
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3) Complete the following statements: -

1- Life span of the R.B.Cs is …………………………
2- All veins carry deoxygenated blood except …………………………
3- The ………………………….. allows passage of blood from the left atrium to
the left ventricle.
4- Pace maker of the heart is ………………………………
5- Arteries take blood ………………. from the heart.
6- The walls of an artery are made up of thick ………………… walls and elastic
fibers.
7- Veins carry blood …………………….. the heart and also have …………………….
8- The …………………… link arteries and veins, and have a one cell thick wall.
9- Blood is made up of four main things …………………… which is the liquid
part of the blood, Red blood cells to carry …………………..,
……………………………….to protect the body from disease and ………………….
to help blood clot.
10- The scientific name of Red Blood cells is……………………………..
11- The scientific name of White blood cells is………………………………..
12- The scientific name of Platelets is………………………………….
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 13- Types of circulation are:
a. ………………………………………
b. ………………………………………
c. ………………………………….
d. ………………………………….

4) What is the role of: -

1- Interventricular septum
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2- Red blood cells
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3- White blood cells

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4- Sinoatrial node
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5- Blood platelets
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6- Blood clot
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5) Write (True) or (False)

1- Red blood cells have small nucleus (….……………)
2- The function of the ventricles is to pump blood (………………..)
3- Normal blood pressure at rest is 150/80 (…………………)
4- Blood moves inside veins under high pressure (……………….)
5- Atrioventricular node (A.V.N) is called the pace maker (……………….)
6- All arteries carry oxygenated blood (………………)
7- Blood clot has benefits if there is an injury (………………)
8- Arteries have thick muscular walls (………………..)
9- Valves prevent backflow of blood (……………….)
10- Walls of atria are thicker than walls of ventricles (……………….)

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6) Choose the correct answer: -
1- What is the circulatory system?
a. The body’s breathing system
b. The body’s system of nerves
c. The body’s food-processing system
d. The body’s blood transporting system
2- From what cells do cells get their food?
a. Blood
b. Oxygen
c. Other cells
d. Carbon dioxide
3- Why is oxygen important to blood and to the cells?
a. Oxygen helps blood to clot
b. Oxygen brings food to the cells
c. Oxygen is necessary for cell growth and energy
d. Oxygen isn’t important – carbon dioxide is the most important
substance to the body
4- Which type of blood vessels carries blood away from the heart?
a. Veins
b. Arteries
c. Capillaries
d. Arteries, veins, and capillaries
5- Why is blood that flows from the lungs bright red rather than dark red?
a. Oxygen makes it bright red
b. Carbon dioxide makes it bright red
c. Gastric juice produce the red color of the blood
d. The lungs add a pigment to blood as it flows through them
6- What part of the blood carries minerals, vitamins, sugar, and other food
to the body?
a. Plasma
b. Platelets
c. Red blood cells
d. White blood cells
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7- What is the main job of red blood cells?
a. To clot blood
b. To fight disease
c. To transport oxygen to the body’s cells and carry away carbon
dioxide from the cells
d. To transport carbon dioxide to the body’s cells and carry away
oxygen from the cells
8- Which of the following can best be compared to soldiers?
a. Lungs
b. Capillaries
c. Red blood cells
d. White blood cells.
9- Which element in the blood is round and colorless?
a. Plasma
b. Platelets
c. Red blood cells
d. White blood cells
10- What happens when a clot occurred in an undamaged blood vessel?
a. You would bleed to death
b. A scab will form on the skin surface
c. Platelets stick to the edges of the cut and to one another forming a
plug
d. The flow of blood to tissues beyond the clot may be cut off
11- What happens to the blood when it is pumped into the thin walled
blood vessels of the lungs?
a. Platelets are exchanged for plasma
b. Carbon dioxide is replaced with oxygen
c. Blood fills the lungs and causes coughing
d. Nothing-the lungs are just a place blood goes through on its way back
to the heart

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12- Which of these is not a function of the circulatory system?
a. Removing wastes
b. Transporting blood
c. Conducting neuron impulses
d. Delivering oxygen
13- What are the three major types of blood vessels?
a. Arteries, valves, arterioles
b. Arteries, veins, capillaries
c. Veins, arterioles, capillaries
d. Capillaries, arterioles, valves
14- Which structure in veins prevents blood from flowing back?
a. Smooth muscles
b. Endothelium
c. Connective tissue
d. Valve
15- What is the organ that pumps blood all throughout the human body?
a. The lungs
b. The heart
c. The kidneys
d. The blood vessels
16- The mineral iron is needed for making……………………
a. Hemoglobin
b. Fat
c. Amylase
d. Acid
17- Why does blood turn dark red as it circulates through the body?
a. It starts to clot
b. It gets old and dirty flowing through the body
c. The oxygen in it is replaced with carbon dioxide
d. The farther the blood is from the heart, the more dark it is

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7) Give reason for each of the following: -
1- Blood can’t return back inside veins and moves in the direction of the
heart all the time?
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2- Blood inside an artery has lighter color than blood inside a vein?
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3- The wall of ventricle is thicker than the wall of an atrium?
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4- The wall of an artery is thicker than the wall of a vein?
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5- Blood doesn’t clot inside blood vessels?
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8) What happens in each of the following cases:-
1- Human exposed to vigorous psychological state (according to number
of heart beats)?
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2- Absence of valves from the veins?
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3- Infection of the human by a certain type of microbes?
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4- Absence of WBCs from the blood?
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