Heart Facts
This organ pumps blood nonstop and powers the cardiovascular system.
What is the heart?
These are the two upper chambers of the heart that receive blood.
What are the atria?
These blood vessels carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
This circuit moves blood from the heart to the lungs and back.
What is the pulmonary circuit?
Another name for a myocardial infarction.
What is a heart attack?
About how many times does the heart beat in one day?
What is about 100,000 times?
These are the two lower chambers that pump blood out of the heart.
What are the ventricles?
These blood vessels carry blood back toward the heart.
What are veins?
This circuit moves blood from the heart to the body and back.
What is systemic circulation?
A heart attack happens when this artery is blocked.
What is a coronary artery?
Each minute, the heart pumps about this much blood.
What is 1.5 gallons?
This muscular wall separates the right and left sides of the heart.
What is the septum?
These tiny vessels allow gas and nutrient exchange with tissues.
What are capillaries?
Blood picks up oxygen in this organ.
What are the lungs?
This condition involves abnormal electrical signals and an irregular heartbeat.
What is atrial fibrillation (AFib)?
This is the #1 cause of death related to the heart.
What is heart disease?
On average, the heart is about the size of this.
What is a clenched fist?
This blood component carries oxygen using hemoglobin.
What are red blood cells?
The large artery that carries oxygenated blood to the body.
What is the aorta?
This condition occurs when the heart is too weak or stiff to pump blood effectively.
What is congestive heart failure?
The largest heart ever recorded belonged to this animal.
What is a gray whale?
This side of the heart handles oxygen-rich blood.
What is the left side?
This blood component helps blood clot when you’re injured.
What are platelets?
Put this pathway in order:
Body → ___ → Lungs → ___ → Body
What is Right Heart, Left Heart?
This circulation pathway moves blood:
Heart → Lungs → Heart
What is pulmonary circulation?