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Blood Vessels
A Busy Pump
Blood
The Heart
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100
These are the three kinds of blood vessels.
What are arteries, veins, and capillaries?
100
This is a hollow muscle that pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
100
This is where the blood travels in order to get oxygen.
What are the lungs?
200
These blood vessels carry blood away from the heart.
What are arteries?
300
These tiny blood vessels connect veins to arteries.
What are capillaries?
300
They are the four chambers of your heart.
What are the left and right ventricles and atria?
300
They move to control the flow of blood through the heart.
What are the valves?
400
These blood vessels carry blood to the heart.
What are veins?
400
This is a curved blood vessel that is the main artery of the body.
What is the aorta (aortic arch)?
400
This is the regular beating of the arteries.
What is your pulse?
500
These blood vessels carry blood, rich with oxygen and nutrients.
What are arteries?
500
These structures carry oxygen-poor blood from the heart to the lungs.
What are the pulmonary arteries?
500
The heart is located here.
What is between the lungs and behind the rib cage?