Heart Basics
This organ pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
These blood vessels carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
These organs allow us to breathe and exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide.
What are the lungs?
A blockage of blood flow to the brain that can cause paralysis.
What is a stroke?
This type of exercise strengthens the heart and uses oxygen.
What is aerobic exercise?
These are the two upper chambers of the heart.
What are atria?
These blood vessels carry blood back to the heart.
What are veins?
This tube carries air from the throat to the lungs.
What is the trachea?
This occurs when blood flow to the heart muscle is blocked.
What is a heart attack?
Experts recommend about this many minutes of aerobic exercise per day.
What is 30-40 minutes?
This heart chamber has the thickest walls and pumps blood to the body.
What is the left ventricle?
These tiny vessels allow oxygen and carbon dioxide to be exchanged.
What are capillaries?
These tiny air sacs in the lungs allows gas exchange.
What are alveoli?
This condition causes the airways to narrow, making breathing difficult.
What is asthma?
What is smoking?
This type of muscle makes up the heart and works involuntarily.
What is cardiac muscle?
These blood cells carry oxygen using hemoglobin.
What are red blood cells?
These small hairs in the nose trap dust and particles.
What are cilia?
This lung infection inflames the air sacs and can cause fever and coughing.
What is pneumonia?
A healthy adult resting heart rate usually falls in this range.
What is 60-100 beats per minute?
This valve separates the right atrium from the right ventricle.
What is the tricuspid valve?
This blood type is known as the universal donor.
What is O negative?
These two branches split from the trachea and lead to each lung.
What are bronchi?
What is arteriosclerosis?
A healthy blood pressure reading is usually around this value?
What is 120/80?