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    Heart Questions: National Geographic: The Heart

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    The heart is a hollow muscular pump that produces rhythmic beats to propel blood through the body. It has two nodes that generate electrical impulses to regulate the heart beat. Blood gets oxygen in the lungs and is carried around the body by arteries and capillaries to deliver oxygen to tissues, while returning deoxygenated blood is returned to the heart by veins. The heart rate can be measured in beats per minute, with a resting rate of around 72 bpm, 95 bpm at a walk and 171 bpm running. Coronary heart disease is caused by buildup of fatty materials in the coronary arteries and can lead to a heart attack if the heart's tissues are deprived of oxygen.

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    Heart Questions: National Geographic: The Heart

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    The heart is a hollow muscular pump that produces rhythmic beats to propel blood through the body. It has two nodes that generate electrical impulses to regulate the heart beat. Blood gets oxygen in the lungs and is carried around the body by arteries and capillaries to deliver oxygen to tissues, while returning deoxygenated blood is returned to the heart by veins. The heart rate can be measured in beats per minute, with a resting rate of around 72 bpm, 95 bpm at a walk and 171 bpm running. Coronary heart disease is caused by buildup of fatty materials in the coronary arteries and can lead to a heart attack if the heart's tissues are deprived of oxygen.

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    The heart is a hollow muscular pump that produces rhythmic beats to propel blood through the body. It has two nodes that generate electrical impulses to regulate the heart beat. Blood gets oxygen in the lungs and is carried around the body by arteries and capillaries to deliver oxygen to tissues, while returning deoxygenated blood is returned to the heart by veins. The heart rate can be measured in beats per minute, with a resting rate of around 72 bpm, 95 bpm at a walk and 171 bpm running. Coronary heart disease is caused by buildup of fatty materials in the coronary arteries and can lead to a heart attack if the heart's tissues are deprived of oxygen.

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    Heart Questions: National Geographic: The Heart

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    The heart is a hollow muscular pump that produces rhythmic beats to propel blood through the body. It has two nodes that generate electrical impulses to regulate the heart beat. Blood gets oxygen in the lungs and is carried around the body by arteries and capillaries to deliver oxygen to tissues, while returning deoxygenated blood is returned to the heart by veins. The heart rate can be measured in beats per minute, with a resting rate of around 72 bpm, 95 bpm at a walk and 171 bpm running. Coronary heart disease is caused by buildup of fatty materials in the coronary arteries and can lead to a heart attack if the heart's tissues are deprived of oxygen.

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    Heart Questions

    Use this interactive animation to respond to the questions: National Geographic: The Heart
    Start on the Overview tab.
    1. What is the function of the heart?
    The heart is a hollow, muscular pump that produces rhythmic beats to propel blood through the
    body.
    2. What are the structures that carry blood around the body?
    Arteries and Capillaries
    3. Where does the blood get oxygen?
    Blood begins in the lungs where it collects oxygen
    4. Where does the oxygen go?
    To the bodys cells all around the body
    After clicking Put The Heart Through Its Paces you should be on the Pumping Action tab.
    5. What is the unit used for heart rate?
    Beats per minute
    6. What is the resting heart rate in the animation? At a walk? Running?
    72

    95

    171

    Click the Heart to see inside. Now you should be on the Inside the Heart tab.
    7.What does contract mean in relation to the heart chambers?
    Contract means moving the blood from one chamber to the other, then pumping back out into all
    the different parts of the body.
    Click See the Flow of Blood in the Heart. Read the text and follow the instructions
    8. What does a node do?
    Generates an electrical impulse that regulates the beat of the heart.
    9. How many nodes are there in the heart?
    2

    10. What causes the lub sound, the first heart sound?
    Tricuspid, mitral valve

    11. What causes the dub sound, the second heart sound?
    The valves between the ventricles snapping shut
    On the Anatomy tab.
    12. What are the functions of these exterior structures?
    Aorta

    Distributes oxygen-rich blood to the rest of the


    body

    Pulmonary Artery

    Carries oxygen lacking blood to the lungs

    Pulmonary Vein

    Carries oxygen rich blood into left atrium

    Coronary Arteries

    Supplies oxygen- rich blood to different parts of


    the heart

    Superior Vena Cava

    Carries blood lacking oxygen from the head,


    neck and arms into the right atrium

    Inferior Vena Cava

    Carries blood lacking oxygen from legs and


    lower parts of body

    Click on Learn About Coronary Artery Disease or click on the Heart Attack tab.
    13. What is the buildup of material inside a coronary artery called?
    Coronary Heart Disease
    14. What can cause the buildup in arteries?
    Fatty foods, lack of exercise, stress, smoking, genetics
    15. What happens during a heart attack?
    The hearts tissues weaken from lack of oxygen, muscles cant contract, blood stop pumping.

    Feel free to explore the Treatment Options on your own.

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