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On your answer sheet, write in the correct letter for each question. 
4 The heart has two halves. This is because: 
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A one half pumps blood to the lungs, and the other half pumps blood around the rest of the body. 
1 What is digested food used for in our bodies? 
A to provide energy only 
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B to provide energy and chemicals to make new substances 
B one half is not used except in an emergency. 
C to provide oxygen 
D to provide carbon dioxide 
C one half pumps blood around the body one way, and the other half pumps blood around the body in the other direction. 
D one half pumps blood, and the other half pumps air. 
2 What is the name of the process that releases energy in our bodies? 
A photosynthesis B excretion 
C reproduction D respiration 
3 Living cells in the bodies of animals all produce a gas that turns limewater milky. 
This gas is: 
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1 When you exercise: 
A your pulse rate stays the same, but your breathing rate goes up. 
C carbon monoxide. D carbon dioxide. 
A oxygen. B nitrogen. 
B your pulse rate goes up, but your breathing rate goes down. 
4 When glucose is burnt with oxygen, carbon dioxide and water are produced. The word equation for this is: 
C your pulse rate goes down, but your breathing rate goes up. 
A glucose + oxygen carbon dioxide + water 
B carbon dioxide + water glucose + oxygen 
C oxygen + glucose carbon dioxide + water 
D glucose + oxygen = water + carbon dioxide 
D your pulse rate goes up, and your breathing rate goes up. 
2 Which of these could not cause muscle tissue to die? 
A The blood vessel leading to it becomes blocked. 
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B The blood supplying it carries more oxygen than normal. 
1 The heart and blood vessels make up the: 
A breathing system. B digestive system. 
C The blood supplying it contains a poison. 
D The blood vessel contains blood that is being pumped very quickly. 
C nervous system. D circulatory system. 
2 You can feel a pulse in your wrist. You feel one pulse beat for each: 
A minute. B beat of your heart. 
C second. D breath you take. 
3 The smallest blood vessels are called: 
A veins. B arteries. 
C capillaries. D tributaries. 
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3 How is carbon dioxide transported around the body? 
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 
A carried on red blood cells 
B as a gas 
C carried on white blood cells 
D dissolved in the plasma 
C muscles making the lungs change size 
D when oxygen is taken into the lungs 
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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? 
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 Cells need more carbon dioxide, and more oxygen must be removed. 
A villi. B cilia. 
C bristles. D filaments. 
B Cells need more oxygen, and more carbon dioxide must be removed. 
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C Cells need more oxygen and more carbon dioxide. 
1 Exhalation is the correct scientific term for: 
D There are greater amounts of oxygen and carbon dioxide that need to be removed from cells. 
A breathing. B breathing out. 
C breathing in. D bad breath. 
2 What substance can be used to test for the presence of carbon dioxide? 
A oxygen B cobalt chloride 
C iodine solution D limewater 
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1 Oxygen entering the bood would pass through the following lung structures in the order: 
3 The air around you contains: 
A more oxygen and more water vapour than the air in your lungs. 
A trachea 
B trachea 
C alveoli bronchus air sac alveoli. bronchus alveoli air sac. B more carbon dioxide and less oxygen than the air in your lungs. bronchus trachea air sac. C more oxygen and less carbon dioxide than the air in your lungs. 
D bronchus trachea air sac alveoli. 
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. 
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? 
C The air sac walls are thin. 
D There are many capillaries. 
A gills B lungs 
C swim bladders D noses 
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