1. Vessels are tubes for transporting fluid,such as: Answer blood or lymph 2. Any disease in vascular system creates problems with: Answer delivery of oxygenand nutrients to tissues or elimination of waste products from cellular metabolism 3. Heart pumps freshly oxygenated blood through arteries: Answer to all body tissues 4. Arteries contain: Answer elastic fibers, which allow their wallsto stretch with systole andrecoil with diastole muscle fibers (vascular smooth muscle, or VSM) 5. Arteries control: Answer amount of blood delivered to tissues 6. Each heartbeat creates a pressure wave, which makes arteries: Answer expand andthen recoil 7. All arteries have this pressure wave, or pulse, throughout their length, butit can only be felt at body sites where artery lies close to skin and over a bone: Answer These are called pulses