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Vocabulary
Blood Vessels
Blood
Blood Types
Memory Lane
100
Fragments of cells that cause your blood to clot.
What are platelets?
100
Carry blood back to your heart.
What are veins?
100
The two of the four major functions that blood performs.
What are transporter, protector, message carrier and thermostat?
100
Antigens.
What are special markers that are attached to the surface of red blood cells?
100
Holes in your head that air passes through as you breathe.
What are sinus cavities?
200
Diffusion.
What is the exchange of carbon dioxide and oxygen from blood to cells?
200
Capillaries.
What joins the smallest arterioles to the smallest venules and have very thin walls?
200
Cells that protect your body by fighting infections and cleaning up dying cells.
What are white blood cells?
200
The universal donor blood.
What is Type O blood?
200
Long chains of amino acids.
What are proteins?
300
Anemia.
What is a lack of red blood cells caused by a lack of iron?
300
Blood vessels with thick, strong walls.
What are arteries?
300
The liquid in your blood.
What is plasma?
300
Type AB blood.
What is the type of blood that can receive any blood?
300
Special flap that covers the larynx so that food goes down the esophagus.
What is the epiglottis?
400
Hemoglobin.
What is the special protein made by red blood cells that carries oxygen?
400
Little veins.
What are venules?
400
Gives blood its red color.
What is hemoglobin?
400
Transferring blood from one person to another.
What is blood transfusion?
400
Weak and shrunken muscles do to lack of use.
What is atrophy?
500
Hormone produced when you are startled.
What is epinephrine or adrenaline?
500
The three main kinds of blood vessels.
What are arteries, veins, and capillaries?
500
Special cells that eat worn-out red blood cells.
What are phagocytes?
500
Where blood cells are made.
What is red bone marrow?
500
These eat away at the spongy layer on the inside of the bone causing the bone to get wider.
What are osteoclasts?