KA5.2- Exchange Between Plasma + Body Cells

Question 1

1) Blood consists of…12

Answer 1

red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets and plasma

Question 2

2) Plasma is a… contains all the… 23

Answer 2

watery yellow fluid that contains all the blood cells and glucose, amino acids, oxygen, carbon dioxide, plasma, proteins and ions

Question 3

3) Blood arriving at the… , so blood… 29

Answer 3

artery side of a capillary bed is at a higher pressure than the blood in the capillaries, so blood is forced into the narrow capillaries

Question 4

4) As blood is formed, … which causes… 25

Answer 4

if undergoes pressure filtration which causes the plasma to pass through the capillary walls into the tissue fluid surrounding the cells

Question 5

5) Tissue fluid supplies… 12

Answer 5

the cells with glucose, oxygen and other substances

Question 6

6) Plasma proteins… as they… 16

Answer 6

do not pass through capillary walls as they are too large to be filtered

Question 7

7) Carbon dioxide and… 19

Answer 7

other metabolic waste diffuses out of the cells and into the tissue fluid to be excreted

Question 8

8) Excess tissue fluid is… 8

Answer 8

absorbed by lymphatic vessels

Question 9

9) The lymphatic system… 12

Answer 9

returns the fluid as lymph to the circulatory system