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Keeping healthy

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1. What does your heart do?

It pumps air around your body

It pumps blood around your body

It pumps blood to just your muscles

2. Which of these would make your heart beat the fastest?

Lying down

Sitting on a chair

Swimming

3. What does your pulse rate tell you?

How fast your heart is beating

How fast you are running

How old you are

4. Why does your heart beat faster when you exercise?

Because it gets excited

To get oxygen to your muscles more quickly

To make a louder noise

5. Veins carry blood...

towards the heart

away from the heart

inside the heart

6. James wants to become healthier. Which of these would NOT help him?

Regular exercise

Eating a healthy diet

Using the car more instead of walking

7. Blood moves round your body in special tubes called blood vessels. Which of these is NOT a blood vessel?

A vein

An artery

A ventricle

8. What happens to your blood when it reaches your lungs?

It picks up oxygen

It picks up carbon dioxide

Nothing

9. What is the most important reason why smoking cigarettes is bad for you?

Because cigarettes can burn your fingers

Because cigarettes can harm your heart and lungs

Because the smoke can get in your eyes

10. Which is the most important reason why you should NOT drink alcohol before driving a car?

Because you might need to go to the toilet

Because alcohol makes you less careful so you might have an accident

Because you might get stopped by the police

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