Apologia General Science Module 14

Usually pictured in red, what are the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart?

• capillaries

• veins

• arteries

Usually pictured in blue, what are the blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart?

• capillaires

• veins

• artieries

What are the tiny, thin walled blood vessels that allow the exchange of gases and nutrients between the blood and the cells?

• capillaries

• veins

• arteries

If a sample of blood is oxygenated, did it most likely come from an artery or a vein?

• artery

• vein

True or false, arteries ALWAYS carry oxygenated blood.

• True

• False

From which chamber of the heart does deoxygenated blood leave on its way to the lungs?

• right atrium

• left ventricle

• left atrium

• right ventricle

What makes up the majority of the blood?

• red blood cells

• white blood cells

• plasma

• platelets

Blood clotting is the process by which blood seals wounds to keep it from leaking out of an injured blood vessel, true or false?

• true

• false

Which blood cells contain hemoglobin?

• red blood cells

• white blood cells

• platelets

• plasma

Where are blood cells produced?

• bone marrow

• blood vessels

• platelets