Spring Term Flashcards
(40 cards)
What is the dependent variable?
The dependent variable is the one that you measure.
What is the independent variable?
The independent variable is the one that you change.
What is a control variable?
The control variable(s) is the one that you keep the same throughout the experiment.
What is breathing?
Breathing is bringing air in and out of the lung. Where oxygen transfers into the bloodstream and waste gases are transferred back out.
What is respiration?
Respiration is using oxygen and glucose to produce energy.
What is the difference between breathing and respiration?
The difference between breathing and respiration is that breathing is only gas exchange whereas respiration is using the oxygen and glucose to produce.
What is the equation for aerobic respiration?
Oxygen + Glucose -> Carbon dioxide + water + (energy)
What does the equation for respiration show?
The equation for respiration shows that glucose and oxygen are needed to produce energy, and the byproducts are water and carbon dioxide.
What is an application of respiration in building molecules?
An example is growing or healing because you need a lot of energy to make new molecules for these activities.
What is oxygen debt?
Oxygen debt is where you are respiring but you don’t have enough oxygen. This is called anaerobic respiration. Instead you turn glucose into lactic acid which produces energy but makes muscles stiff. After you finish you need to take in oxygen to turn the lactic acid into energy. Thus resulting in you breathing in deeply.
What is the equation for anaerobic respiration?
Glucose -> lactic acid + energy
What is the mechanism of breathing in?
When you breath in, intercostal muscles contract, your ribs move up, diaphragm muscles contract, the diaphragm lowers, volume in the chest increases and the pressure in the chest increases, air pressure in the lungs is lower than the atmospheric pressure and air rushes into the lungs.
How does a change in pressure help you breath?
A change in pressure outside the lungs makes the lungs want to have the same pressure so either is takes in more air or pushes air out. The pressure is controlled by the diaphragm.
What is lung volume?
Lung volume is the capacity of the lung, so how much air it can hold.
How could you measure lung volume?
- You can use a Spirometer
- You can use a Lung Volume Bag
- You can use water displacement
What is the trachea?
The trachea is also known as the windpipe. The trachea is the main airway leading to the lungs from the larynx. The trachea is strong and flexible due to the rings of cartilage around it keeping the airway open at all times.
What is the larynx?
The larynx is also known as the voice box. It is a cavity in the opening of the trachea where it meets the pharynx.
What is the pharynx?
The pharynx is the cavity in the throat at the back of your mouth, where the upper part (nasopharynx) is an airway leading to the trachea, but the other passage where food goes is the oesophagus.
What is the bronchus?
The bronchus is one of the two tubes (bronchi) branching off of the trachea carrying air into each lung. To stop them from collapsing while breathing they have rigid cartilage rings around them. There are gland there that produce mucus to collect any unwanted particles.
What are ribs?
Ribs are bones coming out of the spine and form a rib cage that can expand easily for breathing by movement of intercostal muscles. The rib cage protects vital organs such as the heart and lungs.
What are alveoli?
Alveoli are tiny air sacs in the lungs where gas exchange takes place. This is because they have thin walls making it easy for the gases to get through.
What is the mechanism of breathing out?
When you breath out intercostal muscles relax, ribs move down, diaphragm muscles relax and the diaphragm raises, the volume in the chest decreases and the pressure in the chest decreases, air pressure in the lungs is greater than the atmospheric pressure and air rushes out of the lungs.
What is the lung?
The lung is a large, delicate spongy organ in which gaseous exchange takes place. In humans there are two lungs, and lungs are protected by a rib cage of 12 pairs of bones.
What is a diaphragm?
The diaphragm is a sheet made from muscle and tendon and separates the thorax from the abdomen. It is arched when resting and when contracted changes the pressure around the lung forcing air to rush into the lung to breathe.