Unit 12 Crossword Puzzle By Adam Goldberg

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