Match the components of blood to their function.
Column A
Column B
1.
Plasma
a. liquid part of blood
2.
Red blood cells
b. the body's disease fighters (part of immune system)
White blood cells
c. take up oxygen in the lungs and deliver it to cells
3. 4.
Platelets
d. cell fragments used in forming blood clots (that make
scabs)
Read the excerpt from "broken chain." alfonso studied the magazine pictures of rock stars for a hairstyle. he liked the way prince looked—and the bass player from los lobos. alfonso thought he would look cool with his hair razored into a v in the back and streaked purple. but he knew his mother wouldn’t go for it. and his father, who was puro mexicano, would sit in his chair after work, sullen as a toad, and call him "sissy.” what details from the passage would best support a paragraph about conflict between characters?