The Heart
Misc. Heart
Blood Vessels
Circulation
Disorders
100

Location of the heart (in your chest). 

What is on the left side of your chest?

100

True or false: The heart stops beating while you are asleep to take a break. 

False! The heard beats all day and all night, all the time, for your entire life. 

100
These carry blood to the Heart.
What are Veins?
100
This is what red blood cells carry to the body. 

What is oxygen?

100
A heart attack may occur if this clogs arteries.
What is Cholesterol?
200
Number of chambers in a mammalian heart?
What are 4?
200
The sound a heart makes when it beats. It is the sound of the valves between the chambers of the heart closing each time the heart contracts. 
What is Lub-Dub?
200
These carry blood away from the heart?
What are arteries?
200

This is what the heart pumps throughout the body. 

What is blood. 

200
What is one thing that may cause a heart attack?
What are diet, obesity, smoking, high blood pressure, drugs, heredity?
300

Tissue that the heart is made of. 

What is Muscle?

300
This is one way to measure your heart rate by yourself. 
What is checking your pulse? (demonstrate it) 
300
Deoxygenated blood (blue blood) is found where in the heart?
What is the right side?
300
Some components of blood. 

What are plasma, red blood cells, and white blood cells. 

300
How do doctors fix a blocked coronary artery?
What is a bi-pass surgery?
400
Prevents blood from going backwards.
What are valves?
400

This is what a doctor or nurse uses to listen to your heart sounds.

What is a stethoscope?

400
This pumps deoxyginated blood to the Lungs.
What is the Pulmonary Artery?
400

This is an unhealthy habit that some people do that can damage the heart and blood vessels. It involves a lighter. 

What is smoking?

400
A ruptured (broken) blood vessel in the brain causes this.
What is a stroke?
500

Name of the two upper chambers of the heart. 

What are the atria?

500

Name of the two lower chambers of the heart. 

What are the ventricles?

500
These arteries nourish heart.
What are the Coronary Arteries?
500

This is one way to keep your heart muscle strong. 

What is exercise. 
500
This machine performs the function of your heart and lungs in a bi-pass surgery.
What is the Heart/Lung machine?