1.5 Blood

What is blood?

• A type of food

• A red liquid in your body

• A bone

• A muscle

What gives blood its red color?

• Plasma

• White blood cells

• Red blood cells

• Water

What is 'plasma'?

• The solid part of blood

• The red part of blood

• The liquid part of blood

• The part that fights germs

Which part of blood is mostly water?

• Red blood cells

• White blood cells

• Plasma

• Hemoglobin

What are the three main parts mentioned in the blood photograph?

• Heart, lungs, stomach

• Red blood cells, white blood cells, plasma

• Muscles, bones, skin

• Oxygen, carbon dioxide, water

What is the main job of red blood cells?

• To fight diseases

• To carry oxygen

• To stop bleeding

• To carry food

What is the special red pigment inside red blood cells that carries oxygen?

• Plasma

• Mitochondria

• Hemoglobin

• Nucleus

When hemoglobin carries oxygen, what is it called?

• Carbon dioxide

• Oxyhaemoglobin

• Plasma

• Pathogen

Where does oxygen get picked up by red blood cells?

• In the heart

• In the lungs (near tiny air sacs called alveoli)

• In the stomach

• In the brain

After oxygen is picked up, where do red blood cells take it?

• Back to the lungs

• To the stomach

• To all the body cells

• To the bones