Webquest: Blood
Name: ________________________________
Hour: ________
Click on the link titled “Blood Components”. Using the navigation menu on the
right, click on blood, then composition. Scroll down to the picture of the artery
containing the components of blood. Roll the mouse over each label. Note that
the corresponding image is highlighted in the artery as you roll over each label.
1. Describe the difference between RBC’s. WBC’s, and platelets according to the
artery diagram.
2. 2. Click on the link for plasma. What are the different types of proteins found in
the plasma?
Close the Internet window for the web site and return to the blood webquest. Click
on the second link titled “What is blood made of?” Answer questions 3-11 as you
read the information.
3. In addition to plasma and blood cells, what other molecules can be found in the
blood?
4. How many oxygen molecules can attach to a single hemoglobin molecule of the
red blood cell?
5. In what location do the RBC’s shed the oxygen molecules?
6. Which types of enzymes are found in the granules of white blood cells? What do
you think these have to do with the function of WBC’s?
7. How many types of lymphocytes are there? Give their names.
8. What is the scientific name for platelets?
9. Describe the structure of platelets in their “resting” state…
10. in their “active” state…
11. Plasma is 90% water and 10% “other”. Circle all of the following that make up
the 10% of “other”.
(circle all that apply)
leukocytes
immunoglobulins vitamins
cholesterol
platelets
glucose
thrombocytes
eosinophils
monocytes
erythrocytes
hormones
water