Across
- 3. is the outermost layer of skin on your body. It protects your body from harm, keeps your body hydrated, produces new skin cells and contains melanin
- 4. Between 12 and 20 breaths per minute
- 5. it receives oxygen-rich blood from the lungs and pumps it through the body's arteries
- 6. is a closed-loop system that supplies oxygenated blood to the body's tissues and organs, and returns deoxygenated blood:
- 8. heart chamber that receives blood into the heart and drives it into a ventricle, or chamber, for pumping blood away from the heart.
- 11. is the resistance in the circulatory system that is used to create blood pressure, the flow of blood and is also a component of cardiac function.
- 12. is a system that transports deoxygenated blood from the heart to the lungs, where it's re-oxygenated and then sent to the rest of the body.
- 13. The force required to maintain blood flow from the root of the aorta to the venous exit into the auricles.
- 14. blood vessels that carry oxygen-poor blood from the right side of your heart to your lungs
Down
- 1. is a connective tissue layer sandwiched between the epidermis and subcutaneous tissue
- 2. branches of the abdominal aorta that supply blood to the gastrointestinal (GI) tract
- 7. is a large, lower chamber of the heart that pumps blood to the rest of the body and lungs.
- 9. a large vein in the abdomen that carries oxygen-depleted blood from the lower body back to the heart.
- 10. is a hollow muscular organ that pumps blood through the circulatory system by rhythmic contraction and dilation
