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Celebrate Heart Month with a Jump Rope or Hoops for Heart activity. Heart health affects everything you do. Treat your heart
right with physical activity and good nutrition. Listen to the clues. Put your answer – with your first and last name and your
teacher’s name in the red, white, and blue bucket in the cafeteria before lunch. Listen to tomorrow’s announcements for the
answer and winner. Holidays and work days are from the Austin ISD calendar. Be sure to change to fit your school calendar.
February 2017
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Stethoscopes are available
through the American
Heart Association.
Contact:
North Texas:
[email protected]
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South Texas:
[email protected]
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1 Blood vessels that carry 2
3 Your body’s blood
blood back to the heart are
called
A. arteries
B. veins
C. valves
D. atria
system is called
A. digestive system
B. respiratory system
C. circulatory system
D. solar system
The smallest blood
vessels are called
A. veins
B. arteries
C. capillaries
D. phalanges
6 What keeps the
7 What is the main
8 What does your blood
9 The heart has how many 10 What is the size of
blood flowing through
the heart in only one
direction?
A. arteries
B. veins
C. valves
D. atria
purpose of the heart?
A. To help breathe
B. to collect dirty blood
from the body
C. to distribute blood
to the body
D. to exercise the
muscles
deliver to all the body’s
cells?
A. iron
B. carbon dioxide
C. oxygen
D. food
chambers?
A. six
B. five
C. four
D. three
the average heart?
A. a peanut
B. a foot
C. a clenched fist
D. a thumb
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Staff
Development
No Students
14 About how many
15 Which of the
times does the heart beat
each day?
A. 1,000,000
B. 1,000
C. 10,000
D. 100,000
following is true?
A. The human heart
weighs about 1 pound.
B. A baby’s heart beats
twice as fast as an adult’s.
C. The human heart is a
muscle.
D. All of the above.
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The beating sound
17 The greatest risk to
your heart makes comes
a healthy heart is
from
A. smoking
a. blood going in the wrong B. not getting enough
direction
physical activity
C. eating lots of
B. valves opening &
*SLOW & WHOA
closing
C. the heart skipping beats
foods
D. your ears playing tricks
D. all of the above.
on you
*terms from CATCH program
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20 What part of the
21 What part of the
heart pumps into all
parts of the body?
A. left ventricle
B. right ventricle
C. right atrium
D. aorta
heart does the blood
with less oxygen flow to
first?
A. right atrium
B. right ventricle
C. left ventricle
D. left atrium
27 The heart provides 28 Blood vessels that
your body with
A. oxygen
B. nutrient
C. a way to get rid of
waste
D. all of the above
carry blood away from
the heart are called
A. arteries
B. veins
C. valves
D. atria
The largest artery in the heart is the
A. septum
B. aorta
C. capillaries
D. femur
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Your heart is a
A. bone
B. muscle
C. tendon
D. ligament
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What does the blood
do while it’s in the lungs?
A. It rests.
B. It picks up oxygen.
C. It gives away oxygen.
D. It picks up waste gases.
24 The heart’s
pumping action
circulates all of our
blood throughout the
body __ times per
minute?
A. once
B. 10 times
C. twice
D. 3 times
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