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Heart
Blood Vessels
Blood Pressure
Heart Beat
Staying Healthy
100
This is the main part of the cardiovascular system.
What is the heart?
100
These tubes transport blood throughout the body.
What are blood vessels?
100

This element is directly related to blood pressure.

What is sodium?

100
These are the three ways to regulate heart beat.
What is intrinsic, neural, and hormonal?
100
These are the 3 recommended ways to live a healthier life.
What is exercise, diet, and reducing stress?
200
This is the number of chambers in the heart.
What is 4?
200
List in order the biggest to smallest blood vessels.
What are arteries, veins, capillaries.
200

This is the organ that regulates blood pressure.

What is the kidney?

200
This is the main hormone in hormonal heart beat regulation.
What is adrenaline?
200

This is the what the AHA recommends for exercise per day.

What is 20-30 minutes a day?

300
This is the number of layers of the heart wall.
What is 3?
300
This is the place where blood releases oxygen while receiving carbon dioxide.
What is capillary tissue?
300

This is the chemical that the kidney's secrete when blood pressure is low.

What is renin?

300
These are the cells that connect the sinoatrial node and atrioventricular node.
What is perkinge cells?
300

This is amount of fast food you should eat to maintain a healthy heart.

What is 2 big macs? no its ZERO!

400
This is the number of liters per minute that the heart pumps.
What is 10?
400
This is the place where all arteries branch out from.
What is the dorsal aorta?
400

This blood pressure is noted as "normal."

What is 120/80 mm Hg?

400
This is the property of heart tissue that enables intrinsic regulation to work.
What is self-contractile?
400

This is the average amount of water recommended to drink per day.

What is 8-10 cups per day?

500
This is the average number of times that the human heart pumps in one lifetime.
What is 2.8 billion?
500
This is the number of miles of blood vessels in the human body. (to the nearest 10,000)
What is 60,000 miles?
500

This level of blood pressure is noted as a Stage 2 Hypertension.

What is  (greater than) 140/90 mm Hg?

500
This is the length of the delay between SA node and the AV node.
What is 0.1 seconds?
500

This is the recommended hours of sleep for teens.

What is 9-10 hours?