Vocabulary
The muscular organ in the chest that pumps blood throughout the body
What is the literal meaning of heart?
Page 6 compares a red blood cell to a what?
What is an inner tube without a hole?
The aorta is a type of
What is artery?
The heart has this many sides
What is two?
This moves the blood through the arteries
A person's deepest feelings or true personality; feelings of love, affection or sympathy
The red blood cells travel around in this substance.
What is plasma?
The shape that the aorta is in
The heart pumps this to the rest of the body
What is blood?
These are so narrow that red blood cells can only pass through these one at a time
What are capillaries?
The usual or exact meaning of a word or phrase
What is literal?
This chemical is what carries the oxygen or carbon dioxide like a backpack or suitcase.
What is hemoglobin?
Pages 16 and 17 compare the aorta to
What is a subway tunnel or train station?
The upstairs and the downstairs rooms of the heart are
What are atriums and ventricles?
The build up on your arteries that can cause a heart attack
What is plaque?
Not meant to be understood in a literal way; using words to mean something beyond their ordinary meaning
What is figurative
Red blood cells transport two major things in our body.
What are oxygen and carbon dioxide?
The ventricles leaving the aorta from the bottom take blood to
What is other places in the body?
What is squeezing?
These two things can help keep your heart healthy
What are exercise and eating healthy
Exercise that raises one's heart rate.
What is cardio?
Red blood cells are also known as
The ventricles from the top of the aorta take blood to
Where is the head, neck, arms and head?
The protective sac around the heart
What is the pericardium?
The 3 kinds of blood vessels
What are arteries, veins and capillaries.