Wednesday 2 May 2018

Today you will have part one of your respiratory test

This part is a group test. You may work by yourself or with two partners  but not use notes or phone.  You can only talk to the partner you are working with.  Take a moment to copy out the questions below and then put away the phone.

Use blank paper which your teacher might get from the photocopy room and make a booklet on the following topics, in colour and writing clearly in pen.  Give your book a name, like "Respiration for dummies" or   " RESPIRATION, the essential guide".  State who the authors are.  Staple your booklet together.

Your table of contents ought to look like this:


1.  A diagram of the lung and labeling all the parts. How does each part condition the air as the air goes in?
2.   How does breathing in and out happen? What muscles are involved? how does your body create a seal? What nerves are involved?
3.   Carbon dioxide is a gas and it must travel through the body to get to the lungs.  What is the Equilibrium equation and, using cartoons, explain how the equilibrium of carbonic acid turns carbon dioxide into the correct phase for travel through the body.  What is happening to equilibrium in at the body cells?  At the lungs?
4.  What are the three forms of hemoglobin?
5.   What happens to the saturation of oxygen to hemoglobin under warm, acid conditions?  What about colder, alkaline conditions?
6.   How does the control of your breathing rate happen?  talk about how the muscles, the brain and the nerves and the blood send signals and work together to speed up or slow down breathing rate
7.  Write about your own topic

USE ILLUSTRATIONS AND CLEAR WRITING TO MAKE YOUR POINTS.