EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Arteries carry blood away from the heart and veins carry blood back to the heart.

Detailed explanation-2: -There are three types of blood vessels: Arteries carry blood away from your heart. Veins carry blood back toward your heart. Capillaries, the smallest blood vessels, connect arteries and veins.

Detailed explanation-3: -The great vessels of the heart include your aorta, pulmonary trunk, pulmonary veins and vena cava (superior and inferior). They connect directly to your heart and play a vital role in your circulatory system.

Detailed explanation-4: -There are five types of blood vessels: the arteries, which carry the blood away from the heart; the arterioles; the capillaries, where the exchange of water and chemicals between the blood and the tissues occurs; the venules; and the veins, which carry blood from the capillaries back towards the heart.

Detailed explanation-5: -Therefore, five types of blood vessels are arteries, veins, capillaries, arterioles, and venules.