Across
- 2. Dioxide Blood carries this to your lungs to breath out also It is a waste product made by your body
- 5. The right ventricle pumps the blood to the lungs where it becomes
- 8. The heart is a ___ type of muscle
- 10. a pair of spongy, air-filled organs located on either side of the chest (thorax)
- 12. Valve an aortic valve with only two cups
- 13. a small branch of an artery leading into capillaries
- 15. your heart rate ___ when resting after physical activity
- 16. Artery The arterial blood vessel that transports oxygenated blood to the heart muscle
- 18. are thin-walled chambers that receive blood from the veins
- 19. blood vessels that carry blood towards the heart
- 21. any of the fine branching blood vessels that form a network between the arterioles and venules
- 23. Valve one of the two main valves on the right side of your heart
Down
- 1. Artery a small body of specialized muscle fibers, located in the right atrium of the heart, whose activity is responsible for initiating the heartbeat
- 3. a type of chest pain caused by reduced blood flow to the heart
- 4. a very small vein, especially one collecting blood from the capillaries
- 6. Cava a large vein carrying deoxygenated blood into the heart
- 7. It can lead to severe health complications and increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, and sometimes death
- 9. each of the two main chambers of the heart, left and right
- 11. keeps blood flowing in the correct direction
- 14. What type of blood is moved from the body into the right atrium
- 17. the blood vessels that deliver oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the tissues of the body
- 20. your Heart rate ___ after physical active
- 22. the largest artery in the body