Blood and Heart Vocabulary
Across
- 3. The hollow, muscular organ that pumps blood through the body of a vertebrate animal by contracting and relaxing
- 5. the two lower chambers of the heart, one on the right and one on the left.
- 6. Also know as Thrombocytes
- 7. a sugar that the body breaks down from carbohydrates after eating, and carries it through the gut into the blood
- 10. A blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to tissues and organs in the body.
- 11. channels that carry blood throughout your body.
- 13. cardiovascular exercise
- 14. the major blood vessel that carries blood away from the heart to the rest of the body.
Down
- 1. also known as Leukocytes
- 2. the system that circulates blood and lymph through the body, consisting of the heart, blood vessels, blood, lymph, and the lymphatic vessels and glands.
- 4. also know as Etythrocytes
- 6. The liquid of Blood
- 7. a classification of blood
- 8. blood vessels located throughout your body that collect oxygen-poor blood and return it to your heart.
- 9. the body's largest vein
- 12. one of the two upper chambers in the heart that receives blood from the circulatory system.