Arteries

Question 1

function

Answer 1

transport blood away from the heart

Question 2

3 types (order blood travels to the heart)

Answer 2

• elastic arteries: accommodate blood
• muscular arteries
• arterioles

Question 3

elastic arteries

Answer 3

• largest arteries
• walls contains many
• aorta
• branches into muscular arteries

Question 4

muscular arteries

Answer 4

• medium-sized arteries
• thicker tunica media with multiple layers of smooth muscle cells
• muscular arteries branch into arterioles

Question 5

arterioles

Answer 5

• smallest
• number of tunics and thickness of walls varies between larger and smaller arterioles