The Heart
The Signal
Blood Vessels
Circulation
Disorders
100
Name of the upper heart chambers?
What is the Atrium?
100
The period of time when the heart is at rest
diastole
100
These carry blood to the Heart.
What are Veins?
100
Oxygen rich blood enters this chamber?
What is the left atrium?
100
A heart attack may occur if this clogs arteries.
What is Cholesterol?
200
Number of chambers in a mammalian heart?
What are 4?
200
when the heart contracts
systole
200
These carry blood away from the heart?
What are arteries?
200
This is where blood receives oxygen.
What are the lungs?
200
What is one thing that may cause a heart attack?
What are diet, obesity, smoking, high blood pressure, drugs, heredity?
300
This heart chamber pumps blood to lungs.
What is the right ventricle?
300
valve closes, trapping blood in the heart, ready to distribute to the body
lub
300
Deoxygenated blood (blue blood) is found where in the heart?
What is the right side?
300
Heart pumps oxygenated blood to the body using this artery.
What is the Aorta?
300
How do doctors fix a blocked coronary artery?
What is a bi-pass surgery?
400
Prevents blood from going backwards.
What are valves?
400
heart contracts, forcing blood into the body, valve closes after contraction finishes
dub
400
This pumps deoxyginated blood to the Lungs.
What is the Pulmonary Artery?
400
Controls the transport of deoxygenated blood between the right atrium and right ventricle.
What is the Tricuspid Valve?
400
A ruptured (broken) blood vessel in the brain causes this.
What is a stroke?
500
This is the largest heart chamber. (Pumps blood to rest of body).
What is the Left Ventricle?
500
regulates the speed of the heartbeat
pacemaker
500
These arteries nourish heart.
What are the Coronary Arteries?
500
What is it called when ventricles relax?
What is Diastole?
500
This machine performs the function of your heart and lungs in a bi-pass surgery.
What is the Heart/Lung machine?
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