Name______________________________________

 Preview The Heart

    1. How many times in the average lifetime does the heart beat? ______________

The Size of The Heart

    2. How big is a human being’s heart:?
 

    3. When and why is the heart's need for oxygen the greatest?
 

    4. What is the average heart rate for an infant? _____________ 7 year old? ______
           adult?  _____________

View a Preserved Heart

http://sln2.fi.edu/biosci/healthy/stats.html
 
 

    5. What is the number one killer in America?

    6. More than _____________ of every __________ Americans die from Cardiovascular Diseases.

    7. How many Americans have high blood pressure? ____________________

    8. In a 1991 survey, how did the United States rank in terms of cardiovascular death

        rate? __________________________

    9. Who was the highest? ___________________________

  10. Who was the lowest? _________________________________

High Blood Pressure

  11. What is considered high blood pressure? ______________________________

Women and Heart Disease

  12. Historically, heart disease is considered a __________ disease.

Listen to a Heart Murmer
 

Structure of the Heart

    13. How many cavities or chambers are in the heart? ____________________

    14. The upper chambers are called ___________________________

    15. The lower chambers are called ___________________________

    16. This separates the right and left sides of the heart. ________________________

    17. This connects the left atrium and the left ventricle _______________________

    18. This connects the right atrium and the right ventricle ______________________

    19. This carries blood away from the heart. ______________________________

    20. This connects the heart with the lungs ____________________________

    21. How much does the average heart weight? _____________________

Vessels
    22. What is the definition for the following?

                arteries-

                veins-

                cappillaries-

    23. If you laid an adult's vessels end to end, how long would it be?
 

Take A Trip Down a Coronary Artery
 

Vital Statistics

    24. What are two important vital statistics to access heart health?

                a.

                b.

Heart Monitor

    25. An ________________ is an irregular pattern of heart beat.

    26. What is a heart murmer?
 

See A Heart X-Ray

Echocardiography

    27. What is echocardiography?

    28. What is angioplasty or balloon surgery?

    29. What is a bypass?

View An Open Heart Surgery

Electrocardiography

    30. What is electric cardiography?