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BIOLOGY 3rd ESO I.E.S. HAYGÓN
UNIT 4: CIRCULATORY AND EXCRETOR SYSTEMS CARMEN GIL
Read carefully and justify your answers.
EXERCISE 1. (1 point) This table shows four blood tests. Complete the table identifying the disease,
justify your answer and explain the main characteristics of the blood disease.
Patient RBC x WBC x Platelets Disease Why? (justify your answer and
106/mm3 103/mm3 x explain the main characteristics of
103/mm3 the disease)


1 5 9 2.6



2 5.4 18.3 3



3 4.9 8.3 7



4 3 7.2 1.7


Reference 4.5- 5.0- 1.5-
Range 5.5 10.0 3.0
EXERCISE 2. (1 point) Answer the following questions:

a) What are nephorns?

b) Where are there located?

c) What are the most important structures of nephrons?

d) What is urine made of?

EXERCISE 3. (2 points) Label the main parts of the heart and describe the journey of a drop of blood from

the vena cava to the aorta.

EXERCISE 4. (1 point) Represent a concept map of the circulatory system including the main concepts
of blood, blood vessels, heart, cardiac cycle, double circulatory system and cardiovascular diseases.

EXERCISE 5. (3 points) Answer the followin questions:

a) Which type of blood vessels carries blood from the heart to the rest of your body?
b) Where the oxygen is transferred to your tissues?
c) what are the most elastic and thinker vessels?
d) where does the deoxygenated blood enters through to the heart?
e) the pulmonary artery carries deoxygenated blood from the.....to the lungs?
f) what is the first phase of the cardiac cycle?
g) what are the valves that are opened in the ventricular systole?
h) what is the circuit that pumps blood to the heart and the lungs?
i) what is the name of a disease that is cause by plaque fat in the wall of arteries?
j) High force of the blood pushing against the walls of arteries is called..
k) a condition in which blood supply to the heart is suddenly blocked is called...
l) The chambers from the left side are connected by the...

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EXERCISE 6. (1 point) Vocabulary: explain the meaning of these words or write a sentence using each
of them.

a) Clotting
b) Yellowish
c) Network
d) Blood stream
EXERCISE 7. (1 point) Write a dialogue between a patient who suffers a disease of the excretory system
and a doctor. (Assesement: name of the disease, explation of the disease, healthy habits).