Gas Exchange & Cellular Respiration
What gas do humans take in during gas exchange?
What is Oxygen?
What is the main energy molecule used by muscles to contract?
What is ATP?
Name one way your body cools itself when overheated.
What is Sweating or Vasodilation?
What organ is primarily responsible for maintaining water balance?
What are the Kidneys?
What gas is released as a waste product of cellular respiration?
What is Carbon Dioxide?
Which organelle produces ATP in muscle cells?
What is the Mitochondria?
Name one way your body conserves heat when cold.
What is Shivering or Vasoconstriction?
What is osmosis?
What is "the movement of water across a membrane from high to low water concentration?"
In which organ do gases exchange between the air and the blood?
What are the lungs? (specifically, the alveoli)
What process supplies ATP when oxygen is available?
What is Aerobic Respiration?
What happens to a cell in a hypertonic solution?
What is "Water moves out of the cell → the cell shrinks?"
What process supplies ATP when oxygen is not available?
Anaerobic respiration (lactic acid fermentation)?
What happens to a cell in a hypotonic solution?
What is "Water moves into the cell → the cell swells or bursts?"
What part of the brain detects and responds to changes in body temperature?
What is the Hypothalamus?
What happens to a cell in an isotonic solution?
What is "Water moves in and out evenly → the cell stays the same size?"