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What is respirtion?

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Respiration is the chemical reaction of glucose and oxygen in each of the cells in your body.

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What is generated in aerobic respiration?

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Heat.

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Why is the blood important in respiration?

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Because it carries the oxygen round the body from the lungs.

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What is the waste product in respitration?

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Carbon dioxide and water.

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What happens when you excersise?

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Your heart and lungs have to work harder to get glucose and oxygen into each of the cells of the body.

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Which organ system is the heart part of?

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The circulatory system

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List two functions of the circulatory system.

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It helps pump the blood around the body.

Helps the oxygen flow into the body.

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Which fells do not contain a nucleus?

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Red blood cells

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What are the red blood cells function?

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They carry oxygen around the body.

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What are the white blood cells?

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They kill diseases and microbes and are part of the immune system.

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The blood passes through our body in a system called the circulatory system. We have a double circulatory system. Why is it called this and what are the two pathways that blood takes?

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This is because it passes through the heart twice in the process.

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Explain how a high number of red blood cells helps an athlete during a race.

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So more oxygen can be carried to the muscles.

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What is the substance that helps the red blood cells carry oxygen?

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The hemoglobin

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Which part of the body carries glucose?

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Plasma

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Name a substance carried by the plasma around the body.

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Minerals