BIOLOGY 3rd ESO/ I.E.

S PADRE MORET-IRUBIDE UNIT 5: RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
1. What is produced in cell respiration?

2. When do we breathe faster: when we are sitting down or when we are running?Why?

3. Fill in the gaps

4. Why is it not possible to eat and breathe simultaneously?

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BIOLOGY 3rd ESO/ I.E.S PADRE MORET-IRUBIDE UNIT 5: RESPIRATORY SYSTEM

5. Why is it more difficult to breathe in a dry climate than in a humid one?

6. What would happen if we didn't have cilia in our trachea?

7. What do the pleura and pleural fluid do?

8. Why is better to breathe through the nose than through the mouth?

9. Air obtained from the trachea is 16% oxygen and 4,6% carbon dioxide. At another point, it
contains 20,5 % oxygen and 0,4 % carbon dioxide. Which composition represents air being
inhaled? And which represents air being exhaled? Justify your answer.

10. Why is pulmonary ventilation slow when we are asleep?

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11. Why does condensation form in winter when we exhale air onto a window?

12. Draw a picture summarising how gas exchange between the alveoli and blood occurs.

13. Draw arrows to match up the sentences on the left with those on the right to show how air
is brought in and out of the lungs in the process of breathing. One has been done for you.

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14. The diagram below shows blood flowing past air sacs in the lungs and body cells.

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15. Label the parts

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