Download Blood Web Activity

Blood Web Activity
Name ______________________________________ Date _________________
http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/blood/platelet.html
1. What are platelets?
________________________________________________________________________
2. What do platelets do?
________________________________________________________________________
3. What minerals must be present in blood for a clot to form?
________________________________________________________________________
4. What is a scab?
________________________________________________________________________
5. What causes a stroke?
________________________________________________________________________
6. What can happen if oxygen flow to the brain stops?
________________________________________________________________________
http://www.fi.edu/learn/heart/blood/plasma.html
7. What is plasma?
________________________________________________________________________
8. Why is plasma important?
________________________________________________________________________
9. What materials other than water does plasma contain?
________________________________________________________________________
http://www.fi.edu/learn/heart/blood/red.html
10. Why are red blood cells red?
________________________________________________________________________
11. What does hemoglobin do in your body?
________________________________________________________________________
12. What is the average life cycle of a red blood cell? ____________________________
http://www.fi.edu/learn/heart/blood/white.html
13. What do white blood cells do?
________________________________________________________________________
14. How long do white blood cells live? _______________________________________
15. How many white blood cells are contained in a drop of blood?
________________________________________________________________________
16. A significantly high white blood cell count can be an indicator that a patient has what
disease? ________________________________________________________________
http://www.fi.edu/learn/heart/blood/lymph.html
17. What is lymph?
________________________________________________________________________
18. How is lymph important to your circulatory system?
________________________________________________________________________
19. What are lymph nodes?
________________________________________________________________________
http://www.fi.edu/learn/heart/blood/rh.html
20. Scientists discovered a blood protein while studying what animal?
________________________________________________________________________
21. If a person’s blood does contain the protein, that person is said to be what?
________________________________________________________________________
22. Why is it especially important for pregnant women to know their blood type?
________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________
http://www.fi.edu/learn/heart/blood/types.html
23. If parents with A and B blood have a child what are the possible blood types of the
child? __________________________________________________________________
24. If parents with AB and AB blood have a child, what are the possible blood types of
the child? _______________________________________________________________
25. Which blood type is the universal donor? ___________________________________
26. Which blood type is the universal receiver? _________________________________
Finished?
Go to http://nobelprize.org/educational_games/medicine/landsteiner/landsteiner.html and
play the blood typing game. There is a help button if you do not understand the
instructions.