Cardiovascular System

What is blood pressure?

• How fast your heart is beating

• How much blood is pushing against the arteries

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• None of the above

What does high blood pressure cause?

• Stroke, Heart attack

• Heart Failure, Kidney Disease, and Vascular Dementia

• All of the above

What is diastolic blood pressure?

• Amount of pressure in your arteries between beats

• Maximum pressure your heart releases while beating

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What is systolic blood pressure?

• Maximum pressure your heart releases while beating

• The amount of pressure in your arteries between beats.

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This is the only artery in your body that carries deoxygenated blood.

• Coronary

• Pulmonary

• Aortic

• Carotid

Structure(s) that keep the blood flowing in one direction.

• Valve(s)

• Septum(s)

• Neuron(s)

• Bronchiole(s)

What is the average heart rate for an adult?

• 60-140 bpm

• 70-190 bpm

• 60-100 bpm

• 80-160 bpm

What represents the heart's exit doors?

• aorta

• semilunar valves

• atrioventricular valves

• pulmonary artery

During ventricular systole what is happening?

• the ventricles are relaxed and the atria contracted

• the ventricles and the atria are relaxed

• the ventricles and the atria are contracted

• the ventricles are contracted and the atria are relaxed

Deoxygenated blood is found on the left side of the heart. True or false?

• True

• False