The Immune System
Go
to the following web site: http://www.howstuffworks.com/immune-system.htm
On
a Separate sheet of paper answer the questions about each section of the site.
Click
on next as you finish each page and the answers to the questions will be in
order.
Introduction
to How Your Immune System Works
1. What is
the function of the immune system?
2. What are
we going to learn about on this site?
3. What are
two side-effects of the immune system doing its job?
4. List
three things you can see or feel that indicate your immune system is at work.
5. List
three disorders that are caused by the immune system and explain what happens
in the immune system of people with the disorder.
Basics of The Immune System
6. What are
the most common causes of illness?
7. What are
the three ways the body helps to protect you?
8. Discuss
the main characteristics of bacteria.
9. Discuss
the main characteristics of viruses.
Components of the Immune
System
10. What are
the functions of the skin in the immune system?
11. How do your nose, eyes and mouth protect
against invaders?
Lymph System
12. How do fluids move through the lymph system?
13. Describe lymph and give its functions (3).
14. How do
fluids get into the lymph system?
15. What
happens to the lymph nodes when you have a bacterial infection?
Thymus
16. Where is
the thymus located and what is its function?
17. What is
the function of the spleen?
18. What is
the function of bone marrow?
19. What are
stem cells?
20. Describe
the structure and function of antibodies.
21. What are
three ways antibodies can work?
Complement System
22. Where are complements made and what do they do?
23. What do
the hormones made by the immune system do?
24. What is
interferon and what does it do?
Why
do you think people with AIDS are given interferon?
Leukocytes
25. Where in
the body are leukocytes formed?
26. What are
the two types of lymphocytes?
27. How is a
bone marrow transplant done?
28. What
does inflammation do in the immune system?
29. What do
B cells do?
30. What do
T cells do?
31. How do
your white blood cells know which cells are your own so that it doesn’t attack
them?
Using all of this new
knowledge
32. How do
vaccines work?
33. How does AIDS work?
How antibiotics work
34. How do
antibiotics work?
35. What is
auto-immune disease?