Heart Basics
This organ pumps blood through your body
What is the heart?
Blood returns to the heart through these vessels
What are veins?
Exercise makes your heart beat (faster/slower)
What is faster?
Eating this type of fat too often can raise cholesterol levels
What is saturated fat?
our heart is about the size of this
What is your fist?
The heart has this many chambers
What is four?
Blood is pumped from the heart to the lungs through this artery
What is the pulmonary artery?
The number of times your heart beats per minute is called this
What is heart rate (or pulse)?
Smoking is harmful to your heart because it damages these
What are blood vessels?
This is the sound your heart makes as it beats
What is lub-dub?
These two chambers receive blood
What are the atria?
Oxygen-rich blood returns from the lungs to this heart chamber
What is the left atrium?
This kind of exercise strengthens your heart over time
What is aerobic exercise?
This is a condition where blood pressure is too high
What is hypertension?
Listening to this can actually cause your heart to sync up with the beat.
What is music?
The left ventricle pumps blood to this part of the body
What is the body
This is the largest artery in the body
What is the aorta?
During exercise, your muscles need more of this to keep working
What is oxygen?
Name one heart-healthy habit
What is exercise, a healthy diet, or not smoking?
This many times your heart beats in a minute at rest (on average)
What is 60 to 100 beats?
These valves prevent blood from flowing backward
What are the heart valves?
right atrium → right ventricle → lungs → left atrium → left ventricle → body
What is the correct path of blood flow?
The ability of the heart to pump more efficiently with training is called this
What is cardiovascular fitness?
A blockage in the arteries supplying the heart can cause this emergency
What is a heart attack?
This muscle never gets tired, even though it beats around 100,000 times a day.
What is the heart?