Parts of the Heart 1
True or false: the heart is like a squeezable water bottle
True: the heart contracts to squeeze the blood to send to other parts of your body
The name of the substance removed from the blood in the lungs to be exhaled
What is carbon dioxide
The name of the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart
What are arteries
The name of the organs that remove waste GAS from the blood
What are the lungs
Among human beings, ______ have the fastest heart rates.
A Newborns
B Adolescent children
C Teens
D Mature adults
What are newborns (A)
The chamber on the right, bottom side of the heart
What is the right ventricle
The name for the movement of blood throughout the body
The name of the blood vessels that carry blood to the heart
The number of chambers of the heart
What are 4 chambers
The location of the heart in the chest
A Left
B Center
C Right
What is the center of the chest (B)
The chamber on the right, top side of the heart
What is the right atrium
The main substance that blood carries to all of your cells
What is oxygen
What is the right atrium
The reason your heart makes a beating sound
What are the sound of valves closing
The day of the week on which most heart attacks occur
What is Monday
The chambers that blood enters into the heart and then leaves the heart, in that order.
What are the atria and then the ventricles
Atria, ventricles
The two main types of blood vessels (both are needed for a complete answer)
What are arteries and veins
What is the right ventricle
The "doors" of the heart that control blood flow
What are valves?
The number of gallons of blood pumped by the average heart per day
A 2000 gallons
B 200 gallons
C 20 gallons
D 2 gallons
What is 2000 gallons (A)
What is...
Mitral, tricuspid, aortic or pulmonary
The name of the vein that carries oxygenated blood back to the heart
What is the pulmonary vein
The "final chamber"
What is the left ventricle
This separates the left and right side of the heart
What is the septum
The number of miles of blood vessels in your body
A 60 miles
B 600 miles
C 6000 miles
D 60,000 miles
What is 60,000 miles (D)