Gas Exchange Vocabulary
A trait that helps a living thing survive & reproduce.
What does Adaptation mean?
Where do we get our Oxygen from for our body to go through Cellular Respiration?
The environment, (plants, trees, grass, etc.)
It is a gas that is releaseed from our body as waste.
What is Carbon Dioxide (CO2)?
What two things do we combine to make energy?
Oxygen & Glucose
It is how the body and its parts work together.
What does Physiological mean?
It is a gas involved in creating energy.
What is Oxygen?
What gas is released from our body during Cellular Respiration?
Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
This is when an animal goes into a deep sleep during the winter when food is hard to find.
What is Hibernation?
What is another word for Energy?
ATP
The body's network of tubes that carry blood around the body.
What are Blood Vessels?
It is our body fighting off germs.
What is the Immune System?
Where does the Glucose for Cellular Respiration come from?
Our food.
It is a process where our internal body remains stable, (balanced).
What does Homeostasis mean?
Where is energy made in the body?
The Mitochondria
A system in our body that returns the body back to a normal (stable) state no matter what is going on in the environment around us.
What does Feedback Mechanism mean?
It is a simple sugar that we get from food.
What is Glucose?
Why might the Marathon Runner get tired or out of breath with limited oxygen or glucose (food)?
She did not have enough Energy, (ATP).
It is made in the mitochondria and it stores & transfers energy to our cells.
What is Energy (ATP)?
Where are the Mitochondria found in the body?
In ALL our cells.
When the body changes the energy in our food to usable energy for the body.
What is Cellular Respiration?