| A | B |
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| What does the word CARDIO mean? | Heart |
| Blood carries __ to cells and picks up __ | Oxygen Carbon Dioxide |
| In what part of your chest would you find your heart? | The middle (under your sternum) |
| Which side of your heart carries blue (deoxygenated) blood | Right side |
| What chamber of your heart receives blue blood? | Right Atrium |
| What part of the heart has the big pumping cardiac muscle? | Ventricles |
| How many loops does your circulation have? | Two - Pulmonary (Lung) and Systemic (Body) |
| Blood going to the lungs goes in __ and comes out __ | Blue (deoxygenated) Red (oxygenated) |
| What keeps blood from flowing backwards in your heart? | 4 valves |
| What is the big "garden hose" sized artery that carries red blood from the heart? | Aorta |
| What makes the lub dub sound of the heart? | The closing of the valves |
| How would you describe a pulse of 120 beats/minute? | Very fast |
| Where does the blood do its actual work of picking up stuff and giving off stuff? | In the capillaries |
| What blood vessels carry blood AWAY from the heart? | Arteries |
| What blood vessels carry blood toward the heart? | Veins |
| What causes the pulse you feel in your radial artery? | The closing of the valves in your heart |
| What disease can you get from eating bad foods? | Ateriosclerosis (blocking of blood vessels) |
| What do people have when blood vessels to your heart get blocked? | Heart attack |
| Which side of your heart carries red (oxygenated ) blood? | Left side |
| Your pulse speeds up when you exercise to maintain your body's __ | Homeostasis |
