Fun Facts On The Circulatory System
Friday, March 14th, 2008
Innumerable fun facts, both interesting and informative, are part of the otherwise serious topic of our circulatory system. Here is a fun quiz. Try to answer as many you can. Try to answer as many you can. For the real ‘tough’ ones you can always refer to The Self Care Guide To Circulation Problems.
1.There are four types of blood. A, B, O and AB. Do you know which is the most common is type? Incidentally, it is always good to know your own blood type. You never know when you might need blood from external sources!
2.How many million red blood cells does one drop of blood have – 5, 10 or 15?
3.If red and white blood cells are the two most important constituent of blood, which is the third one, whose count is 250 thousand in one drop?
4.How many times does the heart beat per minute, 72, 89, 100?
5.How many billion times will your heart beat in your lifetime, if you lived till 70, 3, 5, 10?
6. The heart stops beating, when we are asleep – true or false?
7.Which are the two body sites where you can feel your pulse – knee and ankle, neck and wrist, forehead and center of your skull?
8.What is the largest artery of the body called – capillary, aorta or vein?
9.How many liters of blood does a healthy adult have – 3.5, 5.6, 7.5?
10.How many seconds does it take for a red cell to circulate our body – 10, 20, 30?
11.How many kilometers does blood travel throughout the body in a day – 20,000, 34,000 or 19,000 km?
12.Bone is a liquid organ – true or false?
13.Where body’s blood cells are formed – kidneys, heart or bone marrow?
14.Kidneys wash our blood. True or false?
15.Our body contains how many trillion cells – 100, 200, 300?
16.How many million barrels of blood does the heart pump during an average life time – 1, 4, 3?
17.Circulatory problems during pregnancy are common. True or false?
18.Babies can be born with circulatory problems. True or false?
19.Smokers suffer from a circulatory problem known as Raymond’s syndrome, Buerger’s disease, or hypochondria.
20.A balanced diet should contain enough fat to make you healthy. True or false.
21.Fast foods keep the heart healthy. True or false.
22.Diabetes is a symptom of poor circulation. True or false.
23.56% of the human is full of fluid. True or false.
24.Fatty deposits on the arterial wall are called plaques, capillaries or sandstone?
25.Tiredness, lack of alertness, lack of mental clarity, foggy thinking happen because poor circulation has affected the: heart, brain, lungs.
26.The circulatory system is powered by: the heart, the brain or the lungs.
27.What percentage of blood pumped by the heart is received by the brain: 20, 30, 40?
28.Jaundice and tiredness are signs of malfunctioning of the liver due to poor circulatory system. True or False?
29.Which circulatory organ regulates our blood pressure: kidneys, brain or lungs?
30.An unhealthy circulatory system would give rise to waste and water retention (swelling of hands, feet and ankles) as well as feeling sluggish and tired all the time. True or false?
For answers to the above questions, see: The Self-Care Guide To Circulatory Problems. Click Here.
