Heart
Fun Facts
Cardiovascular System 1
Cardiovascular System 2
Cardiovascular System 3
100
What blood vessels carries blood away from the heart?
Arteries
100
What is average size of the heart
Fist size
100
Why are veins smaller, thinner, and less muscular then arteries?
Deal with lower blood pressure.
100
These blood vessels carry blood to the heart.
Veins
100
What blood vessels are the smallest and thinnest?
Capillaries
200
The area where your heart is located.
Thorax
200
The average adult heart beats 72x/minute, 100,00x/day. How many beats per year.
Around 3,650,000 beats per year.
200
What happens to veins as they get closer to the heart.
They get bigger
200
Which blood vessels are the most common?
Capillaries
200
Name the artery that transport the blood directly from the heart.
Aorta
300
There are four valves inside the heart name three of them.
Tricuspid, Mitral or bicuspid, Pulmonary, and Aortic
300
How many gallons of blood does the heart pump per day?
2,000
300
Where do veins receive the blood they carry back to the heart?
From the Capillaries
300
Blood leaves through the __________ side of the heart.
Left side
300
What vessels transport blood to the lungs. The ________ arteries?
Left and right pulmonary arteries
400
Name the four chambers of the heart. (Remember right and left)
Right and Left Atrium, Left and Right Ventricle
400
Together your system of blood vessels arteries, veins, and capillaries end to end will stretch how many miles?
60,000
400
Name two Vena Cava blood vessels.
Inferior and Superior
400
The Cardiovascular System could also be called the bodies ______________ System
Transportation
400
What is the function of the capillaries?
Exchange System. Exchange nutrients, gases, and waste products.
500
What chamber does the blood return to once it leaves the lungs.
Left Atrium
500
Total time it takes your blood to circulate through your body. (Every team answers and closet answer receives the points).
20 seconds
500
What are two minor blood vessels.
Arterioles and Venules
500
Name the three ways veins pump blood back to the heart.
Gravity, Inertia, and muscle contraction
500
What is another name for the Mitral valve?
Bicuspid valve
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