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Blood Web Quest
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1. What 2 things make up blood?
2. What percentage of your body weight is made up by blood?
3. Name 3 things found in blood plasma.
4. Where are blood cells made?
5. List 4 characteristics of red blood cells.
6. What is the function of red blood cells?
7. List the 6 main types of white blood cells and the percentages of each type in the blood.
8. What is chemotaxis?
9. List and define 4 types of T cell.
10. What do platelets do?
11. What do electrolytes do?
12. What is the most common blood type in America?
13. What blood type is the universal receiver?
Next web site: http://kidshealth.org/parent/general/body_basics/blood.html
14. What are the 3 main types of blood cells?
15. What are antibodies?
16. Which 3 organs does blood carry waste products to for elimination from the body?
17. List and discuss 3 diseases or disorders related to the blood.
Blood Web Quest
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18. How does HIV harm the body?
19. Which vitamin helps with blood clotting?
Next website:
http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/B/Blood.html
20. Draw a picture of what a centrifuged tube of blood would come out looking like.
21. Draw a picture of a normal red blood cell.
22. Which blood type is the universal donor?
23. What are macrophages?
24. What types of diseases can be transmitted via blood?
Next website: http://www.funsci.com/fun3_en/blood/blood.htm#15
25. Draw pictures of each of the following blood cells as seen by microscopes:
Neutrophils
Eosinophils
Basophils
Monocytes
Next website: http://www.redcrossblood.org/donating-blood/eligibility-requirements
26. What are the 3 most important criteria you must meet in order to donate blood?