Parts of the Heart 1
Blood Circulation
Parts of the Heart 2
Facts
Weird Heart Facts
100

True or false: the heart is like a squeezable water bottle

True: the heart contracts to squeeze the blood to send to other parts of your body

100

The name of the substance removed from the blood in the lungs to be exhaled

What is carbon dioxide

100

The name of the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart

What are arteries

100

The name of the organs that remove waste GAS from the blood

What are the lungs

100

Among human beings, ______ have the fastest heart rates.

A Newborns

B Adolescent children

C Teens

D Mature adults

What are newborns (A)

200

The chamber on the right, bottom side of the heart

What is the right ventricle

200

The name for the movement of blood throughout the body

What is circulation
200

The name of the blood vessels that carry blood to the heart

What are veins
200

The number of chambers of the heart

What are 4 chambers

200

The location of the heart in the chest

A Left

B Center

C Right

What is the center of the chest (B)


300

The chamber on the right, top side of the heart

What is the right atrium

300

The main substance that blood carries to all of your cells

What is oxygen

300
The name of the chamber of the heart where blood enters

What is the right atrium

300

The reason your heart makes a beating sound

What are the sound of valves closing

300

The day of the week on which most heart attacks occur

What is Monday

400

The chambers that blood enters into the heart and then leaves the heart, in that order.

What are the atria and then the ventricles

Atria, ventricles

400

The two main types of blood vessels (both are needed for a complete answer)

What are arteries and veins

400
The name of the chamber from which blood gets pumped into the lungs

What is the right ventricle

400

The "doors" of the heart that control blood flow

What are valves?

400

The number of gallons of blood pumped by the average heart per day

A 2000 gallons

B 200 gallons

C 20 gallons

D 2 gallons

What is 2000 gallons (A)

500
One of the 4 heart valves

What is...

Mitral, tricuspid, aortic or pulmonary

500

The name of the vein that carries oxygenated blood back to the heart

What is the pulmonary vein

500

The "final chamber"

What is the left ventricle

500

This separates the left and right side of the heart

What is the septum

500

The number of miles of blood vessels in your body

A 60 miles

B 600 miles

C 6000 miles

D 60,000 miles

What is 60,000 miles (D)