Across
- 2. Tissue Blood is a fluid _______ made of living blood cells that float in the nonliving plasma
- 4. muscle The heart is composed of _________ tissues
- 7. What transfers blood between veins and arteries?
- 11. ________ is the pump that moves blood through the blood vessels
- 13. The ________ of the blood vessel can cause more resistance within the vessel. When the vessel is shorter there is less resistance
- 14. What are the smallest vein components that pull blood out of capillaries?
- 15. Beds ___________ are the interweaving groups of capillaries
- 16. What is the stickiness and thickness of the blood called that can cause resistance in blood flow
- 18. What type of blood vessels carry blood away from the heart?
- 19. Cells What are the noncontractile cells that can spontaneously depolarize without neural input?
- 20. _________ is when the heart contracts
Down
- 1. What does blood transport around the body in addition to nutrients?
- 3. What is the discharging chamber of the heart?
- 5. __________ is when the heart relaxes
- 6. What system consists of the heart and blood vessels?
- 8. What is the receiving chamber of the heart?
- 9. _________ carry blood towards the heart
- 10. _________ are mini-arteries that branch out of arteries into capillaries
- 12. Vessels What forms a closed system of delivery routes that begins and ends at the heart?
- 17. As the _________ of the vessel increases, the blood flow through increases