Blood

What is blood made of?

• oxygen and plasma

• red blood cells and white blood cells

• plasma, red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets.

• plasma and platelets

What is the function (job) of the plasma?

• To fight infections.

• To transport oxygen around the body.

• To carry nutrients and sugars around the body.

What is the function (job) of the red blood cells?

• To transport oxygen around the body and to the muscles.

• To fight infections.

• To carry nutrients and sugars around the body.

What is the function (job) of the white blood cells?

• To transport oxygen around the body.

• To carry dissolved sugars.

• To clot and cover wounds like cuts.

• To fight infections.

What is the function (job) of the platelets?

• To form clots (i.e. scabs) when you have cuts.

• To transport oxygen to the muscles.

• To carry dissolved sugars.

• To produce antibodies.

What carries oxygen around the body?

• plasma

• red bood cells

• platelets

• white blood cells

What attaches to oxygen as you breathe and carries oxygen on red blood cells?

• plasma

• hemoglobin

• platelets

• bone marrow

Phagocytes and lymphocytes are both types of

• white blood cells

• red blood cells

• pathogens

• lysozymes

What is the name of the proteins that are made to fight of pathogens. They can be produced quickly when the pathogen enters the body a second time.

• antitoxins

• antibiotics

• antibodies

• anticlockwise

What is the name of the process where white blood cells surround, engulf and digest pathogens?

• protein synthesis

• photosynthesis

• vaccination

• phagocytosis