SUBJECT: BIOLOGY

TOPIC: Blood circulatory system

GRADE: 9 (EP)

WORKSHEET 1
THE CIRCULATORY SYSTEM
NAME: _____________________________ CLASS: _______________
Read the information about the circulatory system.

1. FillTheincirculatory
the boxes with the correct word given below.
system is like a transport system. It carries nutrients from food we
eat and oxygen from the air we breathe around the body. It’s made up of the heart,
the vessels
Blood blood and the blood vessels.
heart blood cells blood

2. Complete the sentences

blood vessels using theblood
heart words provided.
nutrients and
oxygen
Plasma water pumps body transport oxygen, red blood
cells white blood cells blood vessels

The circulatory system _________________ blood around the body. The blood travels to
every part of the body through ___________. Blood carries ___________, water, waste
products and nutrients. The heart is a muscular organ that ____________ blood to every part
of our body. The heart pumps blood rich in oxygen to the ___________.

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. The solid parts of blood are: ____________________ _______________________ and _________________
od are: ____________________ _______________________ and 2. The solid parts of
_________________ blood are: ____________________ __
. Write RED BLOOD CELL or WHITE BLOOD CELL in response to each3.
statement below.
Write RED BLOOD CELL or WHITE BLOOD CELL in response t
LL or WHITE BLOOD CELL in response to each statement below.
. ____________________ fight any infection that might enter the body.
a. ____________________ fight made
any infection
___ fight any infection
Bloodthat mightof
consists enter the body. liquid called _______________,
a yellowish which is mainly up of that might ente
_____________
. ____________________ containand dissolved
a pigment calledsubstances
hemoglobin.such
b. as____________________
mineral salts, nutrients anda pigment
contain wastes called hemoglo
___ contain a pigment called hemoglobin.
substances. Blood also consists of cells, such as ________________ and ________________.
. ____________________
___ transport oxygen aroundtransport
the body.oxygen around the body. c. ____________________ transport oxygen around the body
3. Write RED BLOOD CELL or WHITE BLOOD CELL in the blank spaces below.
. ____________________
___ may be phagocytes or lymphocytes
may be phagocytes or lymphocytes d. ____________________ may be phagocytes or lymphocyte
a) ____________________ fight any infection that might enter the body.
. ____________________
___ some engulf
some engulf germs and destroys themgerms and destroys them e. ____________________ some engulf germs and destroys t
b) ____________________ contain a pigment called hemoglobin.
_______________________ looks like
looks like a donut from above andathe
donut from8above
number from and the number
the side 8 from the side
f. ____________________ looks like a donut from above and
c)____________________ transport oxygen around the body.
. ____________________
___ some release antibodiessome release
to fight antibodies to fight germs. g. ____________________ some release antibodies to fight g
germs.
d) Some ____________________ kill germs or destroys them

e) Some____________________ release antibodies to fight germs.

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blood components below. Drag the name and functio

REDENGULF
BLOOD CELL
AND KILL ENGULF PLATELETS
AND KILL PLATELETS
REDAND
MAKE BLOOD MAKE AND
CELL
SEND SENDAND KILL
ENGULF
4. The table shows three different components of blood. Complete the table by writing
GERMSthe name and GERMS
the main function of the givenANTIBODIES
blood components.
ANTIBODIES GERMS
ELP BLOOD CLOT
LYMPHOCYTES LYMPHOCYTES
PHAGOCYTE PHAGOCYTE
HELP BLOOD
TRANSPORT TRANSPORT
CLOT
OXYGEN OXYGEN
LYMPHOCYTES
Red blood cell platelets white blood cells help blood clot
transport oxygen protect us against diseases

Name of component
ME OF NAME OF

MPONENT COMPONENT
Function of component
CTION OF FUNCTION OF

MPONENT COMPONENT

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