Vocabulary
Adenosine Triphosphate (ATP) is what?
*BONUS* Where is it made?
The molecule made inside the mitochondria and provides energy for the cell.
This medical tool can show you your heart rate and oxygen saturation in your bloood.
Pulse oximeter
This is the easiest form of excretion while running.
What is breathing.
You worked out, you feel week, lightheaded, dizzy... you likely didn't do this before exercising.
What is eating
Yeast is used to make different things humans consume, name two.
Bread, alcohol
This is a chemical process inside cells that breaks down sugar to release energy; breathing is only part of this action.
Respiration
True or false: Your body makes ATP while it is using ATP.
True
Anytime you're using your muscles, your body is making ATP.
The antidiuretic hormone, aldosterone, helps your body do this when exercising.
Helps keep your hydration level constant.
There are three types of muscles, name them
Smooth muscle- Digestive system
Cardiac muscle- Heart
Skeletal muscle- Helps you move
This muscle contracts (or squeezes) about 100,000 times a day, translating to roughly 35 to 42 million times per year!
Heart
Explain "Thermoregulation"
This process helps to keep your internal body temperature stable regardless of the external temperature.
You don't want to "hit the wall", which is a phrase that can mean this.
When it’s tough for the body to make energy it needs.
Things like diabetes, anemia, cardiovascular disease, hypertension are known as these, or something to consider BEFORE running a marathon.
Health risk factors
Yeast made this gas through respiration, the same gas you're exhaling (breathing out) right now.
What is Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Coach Jon tried to run his marathon in an "average" time of....
Four to four-and-a-half hours (4.0-4.5 hours)
These tiny "things" in the lungs exchange the air each time you inhale or exhale.
Alveoli
The _____ side of your heart has to pump blood to your entire body (during [heavy] exercise).
Left
This small organelle is the primary source of energy within the cell(s).
Mitochondria
Meaning, "tending to spend much time seated" or "inactive", this term is something you should try to avoid being.
What is sedentary.
Explain what an "Input/output" model is
A way to show how something happens like digestion.
Ex: Breakfast- Input
Process- Digestion
System- Digestive system
Feces/urine/CO2- Output
Stiff muscles, tiredness, weakness are all feelings that can happen when working out hard. Thankfully your muscles excrete this acid during workouts.
Lactic acid
Humans have been using this single cell organism for over 6,000 years!
What is yeast.
Runners must excrete wastes as they run, what are four ways they do this?
Sweating
Breathing
Urinating
Defecating
After running a marathon, doctors says there is a 10-15% drop in _______ capacity for a few days, as this set of organs recovers.
Lung
Explain what "Homeostasis" is
Living things, plants, animals, fungi, etc., all seek to have a stable, internal environment; one that's not too hot/cold, has the correct pH, etc...