The system in your body that transports blood throughout the body.
What is the cardiovascular system?
100
The structures located between the atria and ventricles of the heart.
What are valves?
100
A vessel that carries blood to the heart.
What is a vein?
100
Atherosclerosis may be caused by _____.
What is high blood pressure or hypertension?
100
This is where blood obtains the oxygen to deliver to your body.
What are lungs?
200
The blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart to the other organs.
What is an artery?
200
The section of the heart that pumps oxygen-poor blood to the lungs.
What is the right side of the heart?
200
After leaving capillaries, ______ enters veins.
What is blood?
200
_____ happens when the heart cannot pump enough blood to meet the body's needs.
What is heart failure?
200
These two substances leave the body through capillaries, as well as many other substances.
What are nutrients and oxygen?
300
The fluid in the body that carries nutrients and gases, as well as wastes.
What is blood?
300
One of the lower chambers of the heart.
What is a ventricle?
300
Blood travels through your body in _____.
What are blood vessels?
300
During this, a blood vessel to the brain is clogged, and that part of the brain receives no oxygen.
What is a stroke?
300
This causes the "lub-dub, lub-dub" sound your heart makes, also known as the beating.
What is the closing and reopening of the valves?
400
The flow of blood from the heart to the lungs and back to the heart, through the pulmonary arteries, capillaries, and veins.
What is pulmonary circulation?
400
Blood enters this part of the heart first.
What is an atrium?
400
A _____ is a tiny blood vessel that allows an exchange between blood and cells in other tissue.
What is a capillary?
400
This happens when cholesterol builds up inside of the blood vessels and causes the vessels to become narrower and less elastic.
What is atherosclerosis?
400
These are three of the organs that can be damaged during a heart failure.
What are the brain, kidneys, and lungs?
500
When an artery that supplies blood to the heart gets blocked, the person may have _____.
What is a heart attack?
500
The material that the heart is mostly made up of.
What is cardiac muscle tissue?
500
Large arteries branch into small _____, which branch into _____, which join small veins, which join to _____.
(MUST BE IN ORDER)
What are small arteries, capillaries, and large veins?
500
A _____ happens when heart muscles die and part of the muscle is damaged.
What is a heart attack?
500
The differences between veins, arteries, and capillaries.
What is veins take blood to the heart, arteries carry blood away from the heart and to the body's organs, and capillaries allow an exchange between blood and cells in other tissue?