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Question 1: If you are dehydrated, does your blood become hypertonic or hypotonic? Explain what happens under such conditions to your body.

Question 2: Explain the significance of warm blood flowing to the surface of the skin when temperature regulation of your body core is important. Explain by what processes the body loses excess heat from the skin due to blood flow through the capillaries there (think of evaporation, convective heat loss, radiation heat loss). Sounds like online research to me!

Question 3: How can you separate plasma from the formed elements? What physical features of the plasma and the corpuscles allow them to be separated this way? What is the comparative percent of erythrocytes, buffy coat, and plasma in "whole blood."

Question 4: Do acids donate H+ or OH-? Why is this so important (consider the pH of blood).

Question 5: What is hematocrit (true and clinical?). What is the difference, if any? How does the shape of an erythrocyte facilitate its passage through a capillary bed?

Question 6: What are the most numerous of the formed elements of blood? Why do you suppose that is?

Question 7: How does the urinary system and respiratory system help maintain the basic pH of blood? (You may have to check online for the answer!)