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.
February 2016
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Stethoscopes are available
through the American
Heart Association.
Contact:
North Texas:
Tonya.Bradford@heart.org
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South Texas:
Amy.Newman@heart. org
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Blood vessels that
carry blood away from
the heart are called
A. arteries
B. veins
C. valves
D. atria
2 The largest artery in
3 Blood vessels that carry 4
5 Your body’s blood
the heart is the
A. septum
B. aorta
C. capillaries
D. femur
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
8 What keeps the
9 What is the main
10 What does your blood 11 The heart has how
12 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
the average heart?
A. a peanut
B. a foot
C. a clenched fist
D. a thumb
The smallest blood
vessels are called
A. veins
B. arteries
C. capillaries
D. phalanges
many chambers?
A. six
B. five
C. four
D. three
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15
The greatest risk to
a healthy heart is
A. smoking
B. not getting enough
physical activity
C. eating lots of
*SLOW & WHOA
foods
D. all of the above.
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25
26 The heart’s
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times does the heart beat
each day?
A. 1,000,000
B. 1,000
C. 10,000
D. 100,000
22 What part of the
23 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
No Students
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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.
The beating sound
your heart makes comes
from
a. blood going in the wrong
direction
B. valves opening &
closing
C. the heart skipping beats
D. your ears playing tricks
on you
17 Which of the
Staff
Development
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16 About how many
Your heart is a
A. bone
B. muscle
C. tendon
D. ligament
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.
pumping action
circulates all of our
blood throughout the
body __ times per
minute?
A. once
B. 10 times
C. twice
D. 3 times
29 The heart provides
your body with
A. oxygen
B. nutrient
C. a way to get rid of
waste
D. all of the above
*terms from CATCH
program