Blood Vessels
These are tubes that transport substances to all parts of the body.
What are blood vessels?
These blood vessels move blood from the heart to the organs.
What are arteries?
These blood vessels move blood from tissues to the heart.
What are veins?
These are very small and thin blood vessels.
What are capillaries?
This is the liquid part of blood.
What is plasma?
These tubes form a closed circuit where blood circulates.
What are blood vessels?
This color represents arteries in the diagram.
What is red?
This is the amount of pressure blood has in veins as it returns to the heart.
What is less pressure?
These blood vessels take nutrients to the cells and take waste away.
What are capillaries?
These are the three formed elements of blood.
What are red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets?
This is the large blood vessel labeled near the heart in the diagram.
What is the aorta?
These three words describe artery walls.
What are thick, resistant, and flexible?
This vein is labeled in the neck of the body diagram.
What is the jugular vein?
This is the number of layers in capillary walls.
What is one layer?
These blood cells give blood its color and transport oxygen.
What are red blood cells?
This is the approximate total length of blood vessels in an adult body if stretched in a straight line.
What’s 100,000km?
This artery is labeled in the neck of the body diagram.
What is the carotid artery?
This large vein is labeled near the heart in the body diagram.
What is the vena cava?
These blood vessels have only one layer, unlike veins and arteries.
What are capillaries?
These blood cells defend the organism against illnesses.
What are white blood cells?
These form when blood vessels break internally.
What are bruises?
This artery is labeled in the leg of the body diagram.
What is the femoral artery?
These blood vessels have thinner walls than arteries.
What are veins?
These are the two blood vessels found on each side of capillaries.
What are arteries and veins?
This is the process that stops bleeding when you cut yourself.
What is coagulation?