Immune System Webquest!

Name _________________________________

Period ______ Date _______________

Go to: http://kidshealth.org/kid/cancer_center/HTBW/immune.html

1. To be immune means to be ________________________.

2. Another name for a white blood cell is ___________________________.

3. Name two types of leukocytes:

a. ____________________________: _______ up invading germs

b. ____________________________: allow the body to ___________________ previous invaders

4. Name two places to find leukocytes:

a. ______________________ and b. _______________________

5. Another place to find leukocytes is your ___________________________ system.

6. What do lymph nodes do? _____________________________________________________________

Go to: http://www.nobelprize.org/educational/medicine/immunity/immune-detail.html

7. What is the complement system?

8. Name the four things complement proteins can do:

a. trigger _________________________

b. attract “eater” cells such as _______________________

c. ___________ intruders so that eater cells are more likely to devour them

d. ________ intruders

9. Phagocytes: specialized in “________________” bacteria, viruses, and dead or injured body cells

a. Which are the “big eaters”? ___________________________

b. Why are these called “big eaters”? _______________________________________________

c. What are the other two types of eaters? ________________________ and _________________________
cells

10. Where do lymphocytes originate? _________________________

Where do lymphocytes migrate? ________________________________________

11. What are two types of lymphocytes? _________________________

12. The lymphatic system _______________ cells into the body and filters out ___________ _________and invading
organisms such as bacteria.
 13. Each lymphocyte has _________________ that enable it to recognize foreign substances. These receptors are
very ____________________- each can match only _________ specific antigen. The lymphocyte cells travel
through your body until they find an antigen of the right ___________ and _____________ to match their specific
receptors.

Why does the body produce so many different lymphocytes? __________________________________________

14. Why are T cells named “T”cells? ______________________________________________________________

15. Helper T cells are the main ______________________ of the human immune defense.

16. What do helper T cells help activate? ________________________ and _________________________

Go to: http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/immune-system-disorders_

1. What do immune disorders cause?

2. What are autoimmune diseases?

3. What do immune deficiency diseases do?

4. Allergies are a result of overreaction to what?

Autoimmune Diseases

1. Rheumatoid arthritis:

a. What do antibodies attach to?

b. When immune cells attack, what can result?

c. If untreated, what could happen?

2. Multiple sclerosis:

a. What does the immune system attack?

b. What symptoms can this cause? (5)

3. Type 1 diabetes (mellitus):

a. Which cells are attacked? Where?

b. What is required to survive?

4. Guillain-Barré syndrome:

a. Which limbs are affected?

b. What is the main treatment?

Immune Deficiency Diseases

The body may suffer a deficiency for two reasons:

a. It may be _______________________ by medication or __________________ .

b. The deficiency may be a ___________________ disorder, present from birth.