February 29th, 2016 Hiroshima by: John Hersey

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Directions: ANSWER USING COMPLETE SENTENCES! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: The Solids in Blood

Level#1: There are three kinds of solids in blood: platelets, red blood cells, and white blood cells. Platelets are actually pieces of cells. They help blood cells to clump together. This action helps wounds to stop bleeding. Red blood cells deliver oxygen to other body cells. White blood cells fight infection.

1. How many kinds of solids are in blood and what are they?





2. What are platelets and what do they help blood cells to do?





3. What do red blood cells do and what do white blood cells do?










Level#2: There are three kinds of solids in blood: platelets, red blood cells, and white blood cells. Platelets are actually pieces of cells. They help blood cells to clump together. This action helps wounds to stop bleeding. Red blood cells deliver oxygen to other body cells. White blood cells fight infection. A protein in red blood cells delivers oxygen to other body cells. This protein, called hemoglobin, contains the mineral iron. Iron gives the blood cells their red color. White blood cells fight infection. They destroy harmful bacteria and defend the body against other harmful substances.

1. How many solids are there in blood and what are they?





2. What are platelets and how do they help wounds to stop bleeding?





3. What is hemoglobin and what mineral does it contain?






Level#3: There are three kinds of solids in blood: platelets, red blood cells, and white blood cells. Platelets are actually pieces of cells. They help blood cells to clump together. This action helps wounds to stop bleeding. Red blood cells deliver oxygen to other body cells. White blood cells fight infection. A protein in red blood cells delivers oxygen to other body cells. This protein, called hemoglobin, contains the mineral iron. Iron gives the blood cells their red color. The more oxygen the protein carries, the brighter the color of the cells. White blood cells fight infection. They destroy harmful bacteria and defend the body against other harmful substances. You have fewer white blood cells than red blood cells. But, when your body is fighting an infection, the number of white blood cells can quickly increase.

1. How many kinds of solids are in blood and what are they?





2. Explain what platelets are, what they do, and their important action.






3. Explain what hemoglobin is, and what mineral it contains.







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February 26th, 2016 Hiroshima by: John Hersey

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Directions: ANSWER USING COMPLETE SENTENCES! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: The blood.

Level#1: Blood transports nutrients, oxygen, and wastes, and fights infection. About 55% of blood is a liquid called plasma. This liquid carries nutrients and wastes throughout the circulatory system.

1. What is the liquid that carries nutrients and wastes throughout the circulatory system?




2. What does blood transport and what else does it do inside the body?




3. What percentage of the blood is plasma?






Level#2: Blood transports nutrients, oxygen, and wastes, and fights infection. About 55% of blood is a liquid called plasma. This liquid carries nutrients and wastes throughout the circulatory system. There are three kinds of solids in blood: platelets, red blood cells, and white blood cells. Platelets are actually pieces of cells. They help blood cells to clump together. This action helps wounds to stop bleeding.

1. How many kinds of solids are in blood and what are they?





2. What are platelets?





3. What do platelets help blood cells do and why is this action important?









Level#3:  Blood transports nutrients, oxygen, and wastes, and fights infection. About 55% of blood is a liquid called plasma. This liquid carries nutrients and wastes throughout the circulatory system. There are three kinds of solids in blood: platelets, red blood cells, and white blood cells. Platelets are actually pieces of cells. They help blood cells to clump together. This action helps wounds to stop bleeding. A protein in red blood cells delivers oxygen to other body cells. This protein, called hemoglobin, contains the mineral iron. Iron give blood cells their red color. The more oxygen the protein carries, the brighter the color of the cells.

1. What are platelets, what do they do, and how are they helpful to the body?






2. What does the protein in red blood cells do, what is it called, and what does it contain?







3. What does iron give blood cells and what makes the color of the cells brighter?








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February 25th, 2016 Hiroshima by: John Hersey

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Directions: ANSWER USING COMPLETE SENTENCES! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: The blood.

Level#1: Blood transports nutrients, oxygen, and wastes, and fights infection. About 55% of blood is a liquid called plasma. This liquid carries nutrients and wastes throughout the circulatory system.

1. What does the liquid part of the blood called plasma do?

2. What does blood do to help our body?

3. What makes up about 55% of the blood?

Level#2: Blood transports nutrients, oxygen, and wastes, and fights infection. About 55% of blood is a liquid called plasma. This liquid carries nutrients and wastes throughout the circulatory system. There are three kinds of solids in blood: platelets, red blood cells, and white blood cells. Platelets are actually pieces of cells. They help blood cells to clump together. This action helps wounds to stop bleeding.

1. What is the liquid that carries nutrients and wastes throughout the circulatory system called?

2. What does blood do inside of our body?

3. What percent of our blood is liquid and what is it called?

Level#3:  Blood transports nutrients, oxygen, and wastes, and fights infection. About 55% of blood is a liquid called plasma. This liquid carries nutrients and wastes throughout the circulatory system. There are three kinds of solids in blood: platelets, red blood cells, and white blood cells. Platelets are actually pieces of cells. They help blood cells to clump together. This action helps wounds to stop bleeding. A protein in red blood cells delivers oxygen to other body cells. This protein, called hemoglobin, contains the mineral iron. Iron give blood cells their red color. The more oxygen the protein carries, the brighter the color of the cells.

1. What does blood do for the body?

2. What is the name of the liquid part of the blood and what does it do?

3. How many kinds of solids are found in blood and what are their names?

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February 24th, 2016 Hiroshima by: John Hersey

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Directions: ANSWER USING COMPLETE SENTENCES! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: The blood & blood vessels.

Level#1: Veins are blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart. Arteries are blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart. Capillaries are tiny blood vessels that connect arteries to veins.

1. What are the tiny blood vessels called that connect arteries to veins?

2. What is the job of the arteries?

3. In what direction do the veins carry blood?

Level#2: Veins are blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart. Arteries are blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart. Capillaries are tiny blood vessels that connect arteries to veins. Oxygen and nutrient molecules pass through the capillary membranes into body cells. At the same time, waste molecules from the body cells pass into the blood. These wastes are carried through veins back to the heart and into the lungs. You exhale some of the wastes into the air.

1. Where do waste molecules from body cells go?

2. Which blood vessels carry wastes back to the heart and into the lungs?

3. Where do the wastes that you exhale go?

Level#3: Veins are blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart. Arteries are blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart. Capillaries are tiny blood vessels that connect arteries to veins. Oxygen and nutrient molecules pass through the capillary membranes into body cells. At the same time, waste molecules from the body cells pass into the blood. These wastes are carried through veins back to the heart and into the lungs. You exhale some of the wastes into the air. Blood transports nutrients, oxygen, and wastes, and fights infection. About 55 percent of blood is a liquid called plasma. This liquid carries nutrients and wastes throughout the circulatory system.

1. Explain the job the blood does for the body.





2. Explain what plasma is and what percent of the blood it makes up.





3. What job does plasma do?







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February 23rd, 2016 Hiroshima by: John Hersey

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Directions: ANSWER USING COMPLETE SENTENCES! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: The Circulatory System.

Subject: The Circulatory System: The Blood Vessels & Blood.

Level#1: Veins are blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart. Arteries are blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart. Capillaries are tiny blood vessels that connect arteries to veins.

1. What are the blood vessels called that carry blood away from the heart?





2. What are the blood vessels called that carry blood toward the heart?





3. What are capillaries and what do they do?





Level#2: Veins are blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart. Arteries are blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart. Capillaries are tiny blood vessels that connect arteries to veins. Oxygen and nutrient molecules pass through the capillary membranes into body cells. At the same time, waste molecules from the body cells pass into the blood. These wastes are carried through veins back to the heart into the lungs. Your exhale some of the wastes into the air.

1. What do the veins and arteries do with the blood?






2. What job do capillaries do as part of our circulatory system?






3. What two types of molecules pass through the capillary membranes and where do they go?







Level#3: Veins are blood vessels that carry blood toward the heart. Arteries are blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart. Capillaries are tiny blood vessels that connect arteries to veins. Oxygen and nutrient molecules pass through the capillary membranes into body cells. At the same time, waste molecules from the body cells pass into the blood. These wastes are carried through veins back to the heart into the lungs. Your exhale some of the wastes into the air. Blood transports nutrients, oxygen, and wastes. and fights infection. About 55 percent of blood is a liquid called plasma. This liquid carries nutrients and wastes throughout the circulatory system.

1. Explain the function of; veins, arteries, and capillaries.







2. Explain what goes on in the capillaries.






3. Where do the wastes in the blood go and how are they gotten rid of?








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February 22nd, 2016 Hiroshima by: John Hersey

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Directions: ANSWER USING COMPLETE SENTENCES! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: The Circulatory System.

Subject: The Circulatory System: The Heart

Level#1: The heart is the main organ of the circulatory system. It is about the size of a closed fist. The heart is made of cardiac muscle. The heart works by pumping and relaxing. These actions keep blood flowing throughout the body.

1. How does your heart work





2. What type of muscle is your heart made of?





3. What does the pumping and relaxing of the heart do?







Level#2: The heart is the main organ of the circulatory system. It is about the size of a closed fist. The heart is made of cardiac muscle. The heart works by pumping and relaxing. These actions keep blood flowing throughout the body. The heart is divided into four parts or chambers. The two top chambers are called atria (singular atrium). The bottom two chambers are called ventricles. Valve open and close to control the direction of blood flow.

1. What is the heart divided into?





2. What are the two top chambers and two bottom chambers called?





3. What controls the direction of the flow of blood in the heart?









Level#3: The heart is the main organ of the circulatory system. It is about the size of a closed fist. The heart is made of cardiac muscle. The heart works by pumping and relaxing. These actions keep blood flowing throughout the body. The heart is divided into four parts or chambers. The two top chambers are called atria (singular atrium). The bottom two chambers are called ventricles. Valve open and close to control the direction of blood flow. First, blood flows into the right atrium. From there, it is pumped in the right ventricle. Then, arteries carry the blood to the lungs. In the lungs, the blood picks up oxygen. Now, the oxygen-rich blood returns to the left atrium through large veins. The heart pumps the blood into the left ventricle. From there, it moves through the aorta and out to the body. The blood delivers nutrients and oxygen to all cells.

1. Explain the structure of the heart and what the valves do.








2. Explain in detail the flow of blood from the heart to the rest of the body.











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February 12th, 2016 Hiroshima by John Hersey

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Directions: ANSWER USING COMPLETE SENTENCES! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: The Circulatory System.

Subject: The Circulatory System: The Heart

Level#1: The heart is the main organ of the circulatory system. It is about the size of a closed fist. The heart is made of cardiac muscle. The heart works by pumping and relaxing. These actions keep blood flowing throughout the body.

1. What is the main part of the circulatory system?






2. How big is the heart?





3. What is the heart made of?







Level#2: The heart is the main organ of the circulatory system. It is about the size of a closed fist. The heart is made of cardiac muscle. The heart works by pumping and relaxing. These actions keep blood flowing throughout the body. The heart is divided into four parts or chambers. The two top chambers are called atria (singular atrium). The bottom two chambers are called ventricles. Valve open and close to control the direction of blood flow.

1. What is the main organ of the circulatory system?





2. What size is the heart and what is it made of?





3. How does the heart work and what do the actions of the heart do?






Level#3: The heart is the main organ of the circulatory system. It is about the size of a closed fist. The heart is made of cardiac muscle. The heart works by pumping and relaxing. These actions keep blood flowing throughout the body. The heart is divided into four parts or chambers. The two top chambers are called atria (singular atrium). The bottom two chambers are called ventricles. Valve open and close to control the direction of blood flow. First, blood flows into the right atrium. From there, it is pumped in the right ventricle. Then, arteries carry the blood to the lungs. In the lungs, the blood picks up oxygen. Now, the oxygen-rich blood returns to the left atrium through large veins. The heart pumps the blood into the left ventricle. From there, it moves through the aorta and out to the body. The blood delivers nutrients and oxygen to all cells.

1. What is the main organ of the circulatory system, how big is it, and what is it made of?







2. How does the heart work and what do the actions of the heart accomplish?








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February 11th, 2016 Hiroshima by: John Hersey

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Directions: ANSWER USING COMPLETE SENTENCES! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: The Circulatory System.

Subject: The Circulatory System

Level#1:  All cells need nutrients and oxygen. These materials help cells to carry out life functions. Cells also produce wastes. Cells need to get rid of these wastes. Your cells need certain materials. These materials are brought to your cells by blood. Blood flows throughout your body. It carries oxygen and nutrients to all your body cells.

1. What are the materials that help cells to carry out life functions?







2. How do cells get the materials that they need?






3. What do all cells produce and need to get rid of?








Level#2: All cells need nutrients and oxygen. These materials help cells to carry out life functions. Cells also produce wastes. Cells need to get rid of these wastes. Your cells need certain materials. These materials are brought to your cells by blood. Blood flows throughout your body. It carries oxygen and nutrients to all your body cells. When cells carry out life functions, they also produce wastes. Some of these wastes include carbon dioxide and water. Blood carries these wastes away from body cells.

1. What materials do all cells need to carry out life functions?






2. What do cells produce when they carry on life functions and what are these wastes?






3. When blood flows through the body what is brought to cells and what is carried away from them?









Level#3: All cells need nutrients and oxygen. These materials help cells to carry out life functions. Cells also produce wastes. Cells need to get rid of these wastes. Your cells need certain materials. These materials are brought to your cells by blood. Blood flows throughout your body. It carries oxygen and nutrients to all your body cells. When cells carry out life functions, they also produce wastes. Some of these wastes include carbon dioxide and water. Blood carries these wastes away from body cells. The circulatory system moves blood throughout the body. This organ system includes the heart, blood vessels, and blood. 

1. Explain what all cells need and how cells get these materials.

2. Explain what two things are produced when cells carry out life functions.

3. What does the circulatory system do and what are its parts?

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February 10th, 2016 Hiroshima by: John Hersey

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Directions: ANSWER USING COMPLETE SENTENCES! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: The Circulatory System.

Level#1: All cells need nutrients and oxygen. These materials help cells to carry out life functions. Cells also produce wastes. Cells need to get rid of these wastes. Your cells need certain materials. These materials are brought to your cells by blood. Blood flows throughout your body. It carries oxygen and nutrients to all your body cells.

1. What do all cells need and what do these materials do?




2. What do cells produce and what do they do with them?





3. How does blood flow and what does it carry to your body cells?







Level#2: All cells need nutrients and oxygen. These materials help cells to carry out life functions. Cells also produce wastes. Cells need to get rid of these wastes. Your cells need certain materials. These materials are brought to your cells by blood. Blood flows throughout your body. It carries oxygen and nutrients to all your body cells. When cells carry out life functions, they also produce wastes. Some of these wastes include carbon dioxide and water. Blood carries these wastes away from body cells.

1. What do all cells need and what do all cells need to get rid of?





2. What carries oxygen and nutrients to all body cells?





3. What are the wastes that some cells produce and what does blood do with these wastes?






Level#3: All cells need nutrients and oxygen. These materials help cells to carry out life functions. Cells also produce wastes. Cells need to get rid of these wastes. Your cells need certain materials. These materials are brought to your cells by blood. Blood flows throughout your body. It carries oxygen and nutrients to all your body cells. When cells carry out life functions, they also produce wastes. Some of these wastes include carbon dioxide and water. Blood carries these wastes away from body cells. The circulatory system moves blood throughout the body. This organ system includes the heart, blood vessels, and blood. 

1. What do all cells carry out and what helps them to do this?





2. What do all cells produce and what are the two that are listed above?





3. What does the circulatory system do and what organs does it include?









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