Heart fitness refers to its ability to adjust rapidly to these changes. The ability of the muscles use to produce energy.
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Define heart rate
Heart rate is the rate at which the heart pumps, or beats, measured in beats per minute. Heart rate is typically measured by taking a pulse.
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Why is excersicing important for your heart fitness?
Regular exercise is an important way to lower your risk of heart disease. Exercising for 30 minutes or more on most days can help you lose weight, improve your cholesterol, and even lower your blood pressure
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What is he result of a coronary artery blockage caused by plaque, a blood clot, or a calcium deposit?
Heart attack
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What are some factors that affect it negatively?
alcohol, smoking, poor diet, and more
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How is exercising important for your heart fitness?
Regular exercise is an important way to lower your risk of heart disease. Exercising for 30 minutes or more on most days can help you lose weight, improve your cholesterol, and even lower your blood pressure.
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Describe the cardiovascular system
Your heart and blood vessels form the cardiovascular system. Cardio means heart and vascular refers to vessels (tubes). The blood plus the cardiovascular system would form circulatory system.
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What is the relationship of diet (the kind of food you eat) to heart fitness?
Depending on what you eat could affect your heart because if you eat a lot of ad food like jun food or food that has colorants it could affect your heart in a negatively way.
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Excercising a lot could be bad for you
False
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What is poor diet?
Poor diet is when you're not eating corrrectly or healthy. For example: eating just junk food, eating too much or it eating healthy for at least 1 time a week.
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Define pulse rate.
It's the heartbeat felt in the radial artery, located just above the wrist on the inside of the arm on the thumb side. It can be felt on either arm but us usually taken on the left arm, because it is closer to the heart.
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How does the pulse rate change under different conditions?
When you run you re using more oxygen so the pulse rate inncreases and when you re ressting your pulse rate is going to be normal.
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How hard does the heart work?
Your heart is sort of like a pump, or two pumps in one. The right side of your heart receives blood from the body and pumps it to the lungs.
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What is heart fitness?
Heart fitness refers to its ability to adjust rapidly to these changes. The ability of the muscles use to produce energy.
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Describe step by step how blood passes through your body.
1. Blood enters the heart through two large veins, the inferior and superior vena cava, emptying oxygen-poor blood from the body into the right atrium of the heart.
2. As the atrium contracts, blood flows from your right atrium into your right ventricle through the open tricuspid valve.
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What term describes the pattern of blood flow from the right side of the heart through the lungs and from the left side through the body?
Double circulation
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What are the parts of the heart? (7)
Aorta, right atrium, left atrium, blood vessels, septum, right ventricle, left ventricle.
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What are the functions of the different types of vessels? (3)
Arteries, which carry the blood away from the heart
Capillaries, which enable the actual exchange of water and chemicals between the blood and the tissues
Veins, which carry blood from the capillaries back toward the heart.
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What is the name of the structure that initiates, or starts, the heartbeat?
Pacemaker
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What is the cardiac cycle?
The cardiac cycle refers to the sequence of mechanical and electrical events that repeats with every heartbeat. It includes the phase of relaxation diastole and the phase of contraction systole."Ventricular diastole," begins when the ventricles starts to relax.