Key words
Movement of particles from high concentration area to low concentration area until an equilibrium is achieved.It can happen in liquid or gas.
What is diffusion?
One layer of cells
How thick are the walls of alveoli?
Helps to clot it when you have a cut.
What does platelets do?
Muscle contract, chest cavity's volume increases, pressure is low and air from outside rush into the lungs.
Inhale characteristic
No more solutes can dissolve.
What is saturated?
An equal amount of particles around the area.
Blood flows to the heart.
Where does the oxygen go once it is in the blood?
Plasma
What components of blood carries platelets and nutrients?
Muscle relax, chest volume decrease, pressure is high and air will be pulled out.
Exhale characteristics
Is the process that the body uses to release energy from digested food (glucose)
What is respiration?
A liquid that makes another substance disappear into it.
What is solvent?
Oxygen and Carbon dioxide
Which 2 gases diffuse (swap places) in the alveoli?
Haemoglobin carries oxygen.
What components of the red blood cells carries oxygen?
Higher ratio of solutes.
What is concentrated?
The gas that is used in the body to create energy.
Oxygen
The unreactive gas that makes up the most air around us.
What is nitrogen?
Large surface area, thin wall, good ventilation, good blood supply and moist.
What is the characteristics of an alveoli?
There are two parts of this which is phagocytes and lymphocytes.
What are the two types of White blood cells?
Lower ratio of solutes.
What is diluted?
Blood that contains oxygen gas and is red.
The tiny blood vessels that surrounds the alveoli.
What is a blood capillary
From mouth and nose, pharynx, to voice box, wind pipe, rings of cartilage then to the lungs.
What are the names of the tubes that air travels down to get the lungs (in order from biggest to smallest)
White blood cell, red blood, cell and platelets.
What are the three major components?
One engulfs pathogens and the other traps it instead of eating it.
What do phagocytes and lymphocytes do?
Blood that contains oxygen gas and is blue.
What is deoxygenated blood?