Bio 1.4 The Lungs

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Where is oxygen absorbed?
In the Lungs
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How is Carbon Dioxide removed from the body?
It is exhaled from the Lungs
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Name some Efficient Exchange features of the Lungs.
Large Surface Area, Thin Walls (Short Diffusion Path) and an efficient Transport System such as a rich Blood Supply
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What purpose does the Alveoli serve?
It increases surface area of the lungs
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The lungs are the home of what sort of exchange?
The Gaseous Exchange Surface.
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How do the Lungs maintain a steep Diffusion Gradient?
They are Very Well Ventilated
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State how Oxygen is Absorbed by the Lungs.
Oxygen Diffuses into the many Capillaries surrounding the Alveoli
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State how waste Carbon Dioxide leaves the body.
Diffuses from Blood in capillaries back out into the lungs, ready to be exhaled.
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When we breath in, what happens to the muscles between the ribs?
INTERCOSTAL muscles between the ribs contract
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How does this effect the rib cage?
Causes the rib cage to move up and out
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What happens to the diaphragm when we breath in?
Contracts and flattens
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What is created as a result of all this?
A large volume is created in the throax
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If there is a large volume what is created as a result of this?
A low pressure
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How does this help us to breath?
Air is drawn into a low pressure
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What happens to the ribcage when we breath out
Intercostal muscles relax causing the ribcage to go down and in
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What about the diaphragm?
It relaxes and forms a dome shape
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What is created as a result of this?
Low volume
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Which creates?
A high pressure
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How does this help us breath out?
Air is forced out because of the high pressure
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What purpose does the Alveoli serve?

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