Across
- 6. The heart is composed of __________ tissues
- 10. ____________ are the interweaving groups of capillaries
- 11. ________ is when the heart relaxes
- 12. What does blood transport around the body in addition to nutrients?
- 14. What are the smallest vein components that pull blood out of capillaries?
- 15. What is the stickiness and thickness of the blood?
- 16. ______ are mini-arteries that branch out of arteries into capillaries
- 17. is the pump that moves blood through the blood vessels
- 18. _______ is when the heart contracts
- 19. The is the total distance of the vessel measured from the heart?
Down
- 1. What transfers blood between veins and arteries?
- 2. What is the receiving chamber of the heart?
- 3. What are the non-contractile cells that can spontaneously depolarize without neural input?
- 4. As the _______ of the vessel increases, the blood flow through increases.
- 5. What system consists of the heart and blood vessels?
- 7. What type of blood vessels carry blood away from the heart?
- 8. What forms a closed system of delivery routes that begins and ends at the heart?
- 9. _______ carry blood towards the heart
- 10. Blood is a fluid_______ made of living blood cells that float in the nonliving plasma
- 13. What is the discharging chamber of the heart?