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Arteries
Veins
Vocabulary
100
What is the hardest working muscle in your body?
What is The Heart
100
Blood entering through the superior and inferior vena cava is oxygenated or deoxygenated? (think about where this blood came from)
What is Deoxygenated
100
On our diagrams, what color do we associate arteries with?
What is Red
100
On our diagrams what color do we associate veins with?
What is Blue
100
Hypertension is...
What is High blood pressure
200
What on your body can you compare the approximate size of the heart to?
What is Your fist
200
Blood flows from the pulmonary vein to the
What is Left atrium
200
Why do we associate arteries with the color red?
What is Because arteries are carrying oxygenated blood.
200
Why do we associate veins with the color blue?
What is Because veins are carrying deoxygenated blood.
200
What is systolic blood pressure?
What is It measures the amount of pressure that blood exerts on arteries and vessels while the heart is beating.
300
Your heart pumps how many gallons of blood a day?
What is 1,500
300
Blood flows from the right atrium to...
What is Tricuspid valve
300
Arteries flow...
What is Away from the heart (carrying oxgenated blood to the body)
300
Veins flow...
What is To the Heart (carrying deoxygenated blood back from the body to be reoxygenated)
300
What is a heart murmur?
What is a heat murmur is when pathologic sounds are produced as a result of turbulent blood flow.
400
The average adult heart beats how many times a minute at rest?
What is 72 beats per minute
400
Before blood flows into the bicuspid valve where is the blood?
What is Left atrium
400
Describe the walls of arteries compared to the walls of veins.
What is Arteries have thicker, stronger walls than veins and the pressure of the blood in them are alot higher than veins.
400
Describe the walls of veins compared to the walls of arteries.
What is Veins have thinner and weaker walls than arteries, and the pressure of the blood in them is alot less.
400
What is the normal diastolic blood pressure in adults and infants?
What is 60-80 mmHg (adults) 65 mmHg (infants)
500
Our heart has how many chambers?
What is 4 (so does the crocodile)
500
After the blood flows through the tricuspid valve, name the next three places the blood will flow through.
What is Right Ventricle Pulmonary valve Pulmonary artery
500
In old age, the walls of arteries can become very stiff, this hardening of the walls is called...
What is Arteriosclerosis
500
Veins receive blood from...
What is the capillaries
500
Name the four heart valves and pick a friend to describe where there located in the heart.
What is The tricuspid valve is between the right atrium and right ventricle. The pulmonary or pulmonic valve is between the right ventricle and the pulmonary artery. The mitral valve is between the left atrium and left ventricle. The aortic valve is between the left ventricle and the aorta