Unit 12 Crossword Puzzle By Adam Goldberg
Across
- 2. Carries blood toward the heart at low pressure and velocity.
- 4. Carries blood away from the heart at high pressure and velocity.
- 6. Pumps blood to body and back from the heart.
- 8. Where digestive and respiratory systems meet.
- 9. An inflammation of the lungs that causes them to fill with fluid.
- 12. Prevents backflow of blood in the Heart.
- 13. FIght or Flight hormone released during stress.
- 14. Long, single fiber, conducts signal toward another neuron or effector.
- 15. Scientific name for red blood cells.
- 17. Heart chamber that receives blood.
- 18. Relaxation phase of the Cardiac Cycle.
- 20. Small wire mesh tubes to prop open the arteries.
- 21. Voice box.
- 23. Keep Oxygen rich blood and Oxygen poor blood separate in the heart.
- 25. Rhythmic stretching of the arteries caused by the pressure that is forced through the vessels during systole.
Down
- 1. Disease that causes alveoli to disintegrate.
- 3. Anything that causes a nerve signal so start.
- 5. Chronic cardiovascular disease.
- 7. An infection or irritation of the air passages. (Ain’t nobody got time for dat!)
- 10. Nerve cell specialized for carrying signals from one part of the body to another.
- 11. Clusters of air sacs.
- 16. Windpipe.
- 19. Contraction phase of the Cardiac Cycle.
- 22. Communication made from bundles of neuron fibers wrapped in connective tissue.
- 24. Only pumps blood to the ventricle in the heart.