Student Remediation - Blood Vessels

What do arteries do?

• Carry blood towards the heart

• Carry blood away from the heart

• Connect arterioles with venules

• Contain valves

What is the largest artery?

• Aorta

• Venules

• Superior vena cava

• Inferior vena cava

What do capillaries do?

• Carry oxygen-rich blood

• Carry CO2-rich blood

• Connect arterioles with venules

• Allow O2 and CO2 to enter the capillaries

Veins contains valves, which keeps blood from flowing ​ (a)  

• backward
• forward
• clotting
• thinning

Arteries carry blood ​ ​ (a)   blood.

• carbon-dioxide rich
• mixed
• oxygen-rich

Match the following

• veins

• carry oxygen rich blood

• venules

• allow for the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide

• ateries

• tiny arteries

• capillaries

• carry carbon dioxide rich blood

• arterioles

• tiny veins

Veins carry

• oxygen-rich blood away from the heart

• carbon dioxide-rich blood toward the heart

• mixed blood

• iron