Heart
Blood Vessels
Blood Pressure
Heart Beat
Staying Healthy
100
This is the main part of the cardiovascular system.
What is the heart?
100
These tubes transport blood throughout the body.
What are blood vessels?
100

This is the element directly related to blood pressure and listed on the back of nutrition labels

What is sodium?

100

You can find this by lightly pressing your fingers against the vein on your neck or on your wrist

What is your pulse

100
These are the 3 recommended ways to live a healthier life.
What is exercise, diet, and reducing stress?
200
This is the number of chambers in the heart.
What is 4?
200
List in order the biggest to smallest blood vessels.
What are arteries, veins, capillaries.
200
This is the organ that regulates blood pressure.
What is the kidney?
200

This is the best time to take your resting heart rate to get an accurate measure? 

What is in the morning

200

This is what you use to monitor if you are working out hard enough? 

What is your heart rate? 

300

This is the color of blood when it leaves the left ventricle of the heart

What is red?

300
This is the place where blood releases oxygen while receiving carbon dioxide.
What is capillary tissue?
300

High blood pressure can cause these

What are heart attacks

300

You can do this when you are working out to make sure you aren't working out too easy or too hard? 

What is check your heart rate or use the talk test? 

300

You need to exercise for at least this long to be considered cardiovascular exercise

What is 2 minutes

400

Blue blood is low in this essential ingredient

What is oxygen

400
This is the place where all arteries branch out from.
What is the dorsal aorta?
400
This is the purpose of atrial natriuretic hormone.
What is inhibiting aldosterone?
400
The blood passes through these to get filled up with oxygen

What are the lungs

400

You need this many minutes of physical activity a day to be healthy

What is at least 60

500

This is the average number of times that the human heart pumps a day

100,000

500
This is the number of miles of blood vessels in the human body. (to the nearest 10,000)
What is 60,000 miles?
500

Low blood pressure can cause you to feel this

What is dizzy

500

When you take your pulse, BPM stands for

What is beats per minute

500

You need at 20 minutes of what kind of exercise / how intense of exercise a day for your heart to be healthy? 

What is moderate to vigorous? 

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