The unit that is used to record heart rate.
What is beats per minute? What is BPM?
Typically colored blue in textbooks... these blood vessels are responsible for carrying blood to the heart.
What are veins?
February is ________ _____ _____. It is when we take care of our hearts as part of our self care. This annual celebration began in 1963 to battle against a major disease.
What is American Heart Month? What is Heart Health Awareness Month?
A condition where the force of the blood on the artery walls is too high. This is also known as hypertension. Normal values are typically 120/60.
What is high blood pressure?
This is what the first T in F.I.T.T. stands for.
Double points if you can also state what it means!!
What is Time?
The number of times your heart beats per minute during exercise.
What is active heart rate? What is AHR?
Typically colored red in textbooks.... these blood vessels are responsible for carrying blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
The heart is a muscular organ. The type of muscles that make up the heart are known as _______ muscles and are only found in the heart.
What are cardiac muscles?
This fancy word simply means irregular heartbeat. There are a couple different kinds. Tachycardia is when the heart beats too fast. Bradycardia is when the heart beats too slow.
What is an arrythmia?
What is 205 bpm?
These are the two places where you can go to find your pulse and measure your heart rate. Proper terminology is required to earn the points here.
What are the carotid artery and radial artery?
During exercise, your muscles will require this to continue working. The job of the heart is to pump this into your muscles to keep them working longer.
What is oxygen? Specifically, what is oxygenated blood?
This is the leading cause of death for Americans for the past 80 years. Around 655,000 Americans die each year from this condition.
What is heart disease?
Sudden and unexpected loss of heart function. Heart stops working (beating).
What is cardiac arrest?
This component of fitness is directly related to benefiting the heart. Exercises that target this component of fitness include jogging, jump roping, swimming, riding a bike, etc.
What is cardiovascular endurance?
This is known to be 50% to 80% of your MHR (maximum heart rate). This is also the ideal heart rate range to stay in during activity.
What is target heart rate?
FILL IN THE BLANK:
The right ______ receives oxygen lacking blood from the body and pumps it to the right *********.
The left ______ receives oxygen rich blood from the lungs and pumps it to the left ********.
(NO SPOILERS)
What is the atrium? What are the atria?
What are blood vessels?
Damage to the brain due to the heart no longer supplying it blood. There is an acronym F.A.S.T. that helps assist bystanders help those suffering from this condition.
F - Face | A - Arms | S - Speech | T - Time
What is a stroke?
The heart and blood vessels belong to this organ system. This organ system is responsible for pumping and circulating the blood
What is the circulatory system?
This formula is used when you need to find out your maximum heart rate. The formula itself is 220-age.
What is the Karvonen formula?
FILL IN THE BLANK:
The left _________ pumps oxygen lacking blood to the lungs.
The right _________ pumps oxygen rich blood to the body.
What is ventricle? What are ventricles?
Doing this more often will benefit your heart by reducing stress and boosting your immune system. Yes, exercise does this too... think again!
What is laughing? What is laughter?
One of the most common types of birth defects. This condition will result in faulty and defective heart chambers and may even lead to a hole in the heart.
What is congenital heart disease?
For some reason, this day of the week has statistically the most reported heart attacks. Specifically, during the morning.
When is Monday?