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You can keep your heart strong by:
A
Eating heart-shaped candy
B
Doing activities, like playing outside, riding your bike, and swimming
C
Smoking
D
Sleeping 18 hours a day
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You can keep your heart strong by:
Eating heart-shaped candy
Doing activities, like playing outside, riding your bike, and swimming
Smoking
Sleeping 18 hours a day
With circulation, the heart provides your body with:
Oxygen
Nutrients
A way to get rid of waste
All of the above
Why can smoking lead to heart disease?
It causes the arteries to harden and thicken
It reduces HDL (good) cholesterol
It raises blood pressure
All of the above
Which of these is a classic symptom of a heart attack?
Crushing pain in the chest accompanied by sweating
Pain that spreads from the chest to the shoulders, neck, jaw or arms
Indigestion or heartburn, nausea and vomiting
All of the above
Which of these is a cause of heart disease?
Stroke
Arthritis
Thickening of the inside of the arteries
None of the above
What wall separates the left side and right side of the heart?
Ventricle
Atrium
Septum
The great wall
What parts act like doors that control blood flow in the heart?
Valves
Heart dams
Kidneys
Chambers
What organ removes waste from blood?
Heart
Lungs
Eyes
Kidneys
What is considered high blood pressure?
90/70
100/80
110/70
140/90
What can happen if blood flow in an artery is blocked or greatly restricted?
Heart palpitations
Stroke
Heart attack
B and C
Three risk factors for heart disease cant be controlled. Which of these are they?
Medicine use, vaccines, alcoholism
Age, sex, heredity
Diet, drug use, smoking
None of the above
These are tubes that carry blood back to the heart:
Arteries
Veins
Pipes
Tubas
The movement of blood through the heart and body is called:
Circulation
Locomotion
Ventriculation
Heart pump
The heart, is a muscular pump, beating an average of:
100 times per minute.
70 times per minute.
50 times per minute.
70 times per second
The ECG is a graphic record of
A measure of cardiac output.
The hearts activity.
Brain activity.
Renal function.
The cardiac cycle is:
Ten heart beats where the heart is relaxed whilst filling and then contracts.
One heart beat where the heart is contracting whilst filling and then dilates.
One heart beat where the heart is relaxed whilst filling and then contracts.
Seventy heart beats where the heart is relaxed whilst filling and then contracts.
The beating sound your heart makes comes from:
Blood going in the wrong direction
Valves closing
The heart skipping beats
Your ears playing tricks on you
The atria are the upstairs chambers of the heart and these parts are the downstairs chambers:
Valves
Ventricles
Blood
Candy hearts
In the adult the heart weighs between:
250and 500 grammes.
300 and 400 grammes.
230 and 340 grammes.
30 and 40 grammes.
How much exercise is recommended to help prevent heart disease?
10 to 15 minutes on average
20 minutes on average
90 minutes on average
40 minutes on average