Heart basics
The heart is a type of this organ.
What is a muscle?
Blood travels to the lungs to pick up this gas.
What is oxygen?
This happens when the heart beats irregularly.
What is arrhythmia?
The human heart has this many chambers.
What is 4?
The average adult heart beats about this many times per minute
What is 60–100 bpm?
This chamber receives oxygen-poor blood from the body.
What is the right atrium?
Blood enters the heart through these upper chambers.
What are atria?
Chest pain caused by reduced blood flow to the heart is called this.
What is angina?
The top chambers are called this.
What are atria?
This organ system works closely with the cardiovascular system to exchange gases
What is the respiratory system?
This wall separates the left and right sides of the heart.
What is the septum?
The right ventricle pumps blood to this body organ.
What are the lungs?
Doctors often use this test to measure the heart’s electrical activity.
What is an ECG or EKG?
The bottom chambers are called this.
What are ventricles?
This type of circulation goes between heart and lungs
What is pulmonary circulation?
These structures stop blood from flowing backward in the heart.
What are valves?
Oxygen-rich blood returns to this side of the heart.
What is the left side?
An athlete may naturally have this slower heart beat condition because their heart is more efficient.
What is bradycardia?
Blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
This type goes between heart and rest of body
What is systemic circulation?
The thickest chamber of the heart is this one.
What is the left ventricle?
Name the pathway: Lungs - pulmonary vein - left atrium-___?___- left ventricle-aorta
What is the mitral valve or bicuspid valve?
Stress, fear, or exercise can temporarily cause this fast heart beat condition.
What is tachycardia?
Blood vessels that carry blood back to the heart.
What are veins?
The cardiovascular system is called this because blood travels through the pulmonary circulation and systemic circulation?
What is a double loop circulation”